Vatican City: Reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the sanctity of human life, the Holy See has once again called for the universal abolition of the death penalty. Addressing the 2025 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference during its plenary session on the rule of law, the Vatican underscored that every person’s dignity bestowed by God remains inviolable from conception to natural death.
Msgr. Lucas Marabese, Deputy Head of Mission of the Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), delivered the Vatican’s statement, emphasizing that human dignity is not a privilege granted by law but an unchangeable truth rooted in divine creation.
“The dignity of the human person is given by God and cannot be diminished or revoked,” he sai