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Vatican fetes missionary to China
Goa :: Philippines | 11 days ago
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The Vatican is commemorating the extraordinary life of a 16th-century Italian mathematician and missionary who settled in China, with a new exhibition marking 400 years since his death. The event at the Vatican Museum pays tribute to Matteo Ricci (1552-1610),...
Tags: Matteo Ricci, China, Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Philippines, Goa, Ricci, Society of Jesus, Pope Pius XII, Religion in China, Ming Dynasty, Jesuit China missions, Religion Belief
Japan falls into spiral of despair
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 months ago
Credibility They huddle in the glow of lights that burn late into the evening in the mighty skyscrapers of corporate Japan and the Shinjuku government quarter. The workaholic habits of a post-war generation have not ceased but the job for life, central to modern...
Tags: Shoichi Nakagawa, Vatican Museum, Japan, finance minister, vatican museums
Vatican returns Parthenon fragment to Greece
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greece — The ancient marble head of a youth was fitted into place Wednesday at a museum in Athens in a deal that Greek officials hope will serve as a model for returning other treasures. The one-year loan from the Vatican's Museo Gregoriano Etrusco could...
Tags: Vatican Museum, Greece, vatican returns, Athens, Parthenon Marbles
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