If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history