The "dissent channel cable" expresses clear frustration with America's inability to halt a civil war that has killed perhaps a half-million people.

“A large majority of sacramental marriages are null. They say 'yes, for my whole life,' but they do not know what they are saying.”

"This is our country, we had a civilization here for a thousand years and we are still citizens of this country," he added. "We cannot be marginalized."

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said "the whole of the Labour Party and Labour family—and indeed the whole country—will be in shock at the horrific murder of Jo Cox today."

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, applauded recent progress made around the world to end the AIDS epidemic and warned against complacency on efforts to end the disease.He made the comments in a statement to the United Nations' high level meet

Church leaders who decide not to attend, he said, bear responsibility for reneging on their commitment to realizing "this vision held over many years, which all our churches cherish, to declare and proclaim the unity of our Orthodox Church."