2013 Event Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe; he honors them in a mass held on Lampedusa, the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea 2012 Event The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test 2012 Event The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest 2011 Event Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack 2011 Event The U.S. government 'condemns' international media outlets, including 'The New York Times' for publishing confidential files 2010 Event Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure 1998 Event Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba 1990 Event President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait 1985 Event U.N. Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking" 1984 Event U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors 1981 Event China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy 1980 Event U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital 1976 Event Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws 1976 Event U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1968 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns U.S. bombing of North Vietnam 1963 Event West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R. 1963 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV 1961 Event U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid 1960 Event General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid 1960 Event French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons 1960 Event Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law 1957 Event U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary 1955 Event Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar 1953 Event Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal 1951 Event United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea 1938 Event Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia 1927 Event Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty 1914 Event Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum 1885 Event U.S. Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds 1871 Event President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan 1791 Event Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy 1757 Event England condemns ceasefire of Kloster-Seven 1722 Event Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions 1648 Event Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen 1198 Event French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
