{"id":305420,"date":"2026-07-25T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305420\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:10:09","slug":"pope-appoints-new-holy-see-permanent-observer-to-un-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305420\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope appoints new Holy See Permanent Observer to UN in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis as the Holy See&#8217;s new Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, where he will represent the Holy See at the UN headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican News<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis as the Holy See&#8217;s new Permanent Observer to the United Nations (UN) in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was announced on Saturday by the Holy See Press Office.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese-born Archbishop El-Kassis, Titular Archbishop of Roselle, has until now served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, as well as Apostolic Delegate to the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordained in 1994, and he entered the Holy See diplomatic service in 2000, working in Indonesia, Sudan, Turkey, and the Secretariat of State.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy See maintains Permanent Observer status at the United Nations, enabling it to participate in the work of the General Assembly and other UN bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis as the Holy See&#8217;s new Permanent Observer to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37507,115697,9,11,10,5638,45460,901],"class_list":["post-305420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-appointments","tag-holy-see","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-un","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}