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Vatican to publish document for China's Catholics
Cassino :: Italy | 6 months ago
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The Vatican said Saturday it will publish a new document for Chinese Catholics as a follow-up to a 2007 letter that Pope Benedict XVI addressed to that community. The document, written in a question-and-answer format like the Catechism of the Catholic...
President Purvanov will travel to the Vatican to meet Pope Benedict XVI
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 6 months ago
Credibility Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov is to visit the Vatican escorted by his wife Zorka Purvanova. The official visit will entail a trip to the Sovereign Military Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta. While in the Vatican, Purvanov will have...
Tags: Vatican, Zorka Purvanova, Georgi Purvanov
Vatican perplexed by low mass turnout
Jerusalem :: Israel | 6 months ago
Credibility Roman Catholic officials will seek an explanation from Israel about over the poor turnout at Pope Benedict XVI's open-air mass in Jerusalem last week, the Vatican's ambassador to the Holy Land said Thursday. Monsignor Antonio Franco, the papal nuncio...
Tags: Jerusalem, Vatican, Israel, church officials
Vatican: Obama seeks "common ground" on abortion
Vatican City :: Vatican City | 6 months ago
Credibility The Vatican said Monday that President Barack Obama was clearly looking for some common ground with his speech at the University of Notre Dame about abortion...The bill would protect a woman's right to have a child or end a pregnancy. Obama's stance on...
Tags: University of Notre Dame, Barack Obama, Vatican, common ground
Pope John Paul II gunman wants to convert to Christianity
Ankara :: Turkey | 6 months ago
Credibility Turkey (AP) The gunman who shot Pope John Paul II says he would like to convert to Christianity at a baptism ceremony at the Vatican after his release from prison in January. In comments relayed by his lawyer on Wednesday, Mehmet Ali Agca also says...
Tags: Mehmet Ali Agca, Vatican, Pope John Paul II
Angels & Demons
Rome :: Italy | 6 months ago
Credibility At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code , having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was just an old cup or the womanly seed of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon, ace symbologist,...
Tags: Dan Brown, 'AnAngels & Demons, Tom Hanks, Robert Langdon, Ron Howard, Da Vinci Code, Vatican
Vatican stumbles in defense of Pope Benedict
Jerusalem :: Israel | 6 months ago
Credibility But Israeli media were filled with criticism of what some called a banal and emotionless speech on the Holocaust. Commentators faulted him for avoiding questions of responsibility for the slaughter of 6 million Jews, of Christian anti-Semitism and indifference,...
Tags: Israeli, Pope Benedict XVI, Israel Radio, Voice of Israel, Bethlehem, Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem Post, pope, Vatican, Palestinian Authority
Papal visit inspires Gaza Catholics
Jerusalem :: Israel | 6 months ago
Credibility To the small Catholic community in the Gaza Strip, his arrival offers the rare chance to escape, if only for a day, the misery of the war-ravaged territory. Like most of the Strip’s 286 Catholics, Jabrah al-Najjar, a 61-year-old who lives with his wife...
Tags: Israeli, Pope Benedict XVI, Middle East Benedict, Gaza City, Hamas, holy land, Vatican, Gaza Strip, Jerusalem
Roman Catholics term Angels and Demons "harmless"
Rome :: Italy | 6 months ago
Credibility L'Osservatore Romano ran a review and an editorial in Wednesday's edition, critiquing the Ron Howard movie which is based on Dan Brown's bestseller of the same name. "It is more than two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius...
Tags: Ron Howard, Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks, Rome International Film Festival, Vatican
Israeli military occupation 'severely compromises Bethlehem'
Jerusalem :: Israel | 7 months ago
Credibility The combined effect of Israeli annexation, the West Bank barrier, settlements, settler bypass roads, closed military zones and Israeli nature reserves, has left only 13% of the 660 sq km Bethlehem governorate available for Palestinian use, the UN Office...
Tags: Israeli, Pope Benedict XVI, Bethlehem, pope, Vatican, chief rabbinate, holy land, West Bank, jewish law
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