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Vatican City
VATICAN CITY
[Vatican City]
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Vatican City today.(Country overview)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Vaticano (the State of Vatican City) is one-eighth...Vigilance guards Vatican City itself. The Sts...laypeople work in Vatican City. Fewer than...or moves. Vatican City government is a monarchy...judicial powers over the Vatican, but he delegates...
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Vatican City today.(attractions)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Vaticano (the State of Vatican City) is one-eighth the...at the Annona.) The Vatican must guard against black...priced items within the city and resell them for a profit outside in Italy. The Vatican also maintains its own...
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Vatican Letter Appeals for Funds to Battle Rising Deficit;Critics Say Request for Aid, Addressed to Bishops, Reveals Too Little About True State of Church's Finances
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/18/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...by the cardinals are for Vatican operations-its bureaucracy...and salaries for the church city-state's 3,000 employes...omits detailed mention of the Vatican's total wealth and income. While it lists Vatican expenditures and revenues...
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Vatican's vaunted diplomacy a no-show; moral absolutes trip pope's negotiators at U.N. meeting in Cairo.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/7/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...cocktail parties in the capital city, he told NCR, thanks to the network of parish priests Vatican diplomats knew what was happening...into the world community, not Vatican City State. The Vatican state is, in the word of Casaroli...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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VATICAN TO OPEN PIUS XII ARCHIVES.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 2/14/2003; 700+ words
; Byline: Nicole Winfield Associated Press VATICAN CITY -- For years the Vatican has struggled to defend its wartime pope, Pius...enough to save Jews from the Holocaust. Now the Vatican is taking the extraordinary step of opening part...
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Vatican moving ahead with China contacts
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 6/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; VATICAN CITY (AP) - Two senior Vatican officials have traveled to China to sound out possibilities of...diplomatic relations, seeking to overcome a major dispute over the Vatican's tradition that the pope names his bishops. While Pope Benedict...
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Vatican officials in China, church cautiously moving ahead with contacts
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/27/2006; ; 679 words
; ...Writer AP Worldstream 06-27-2006 Dateline: VATICAN CITY Two senior Vatican officials have traveled to China to sound out the...relations, seeking to overcome a major dispute over the Vatican's tradition that bishops are named by the pope...
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Vatican Criticizes China Over Bishops
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/4/2006; ; 668 words
; ...Online 05-04-2006 Dateline: VATICAN CITY Chinese girls doing sketches outside...Wednesday installed a bishop without Vatican approval, the second in three days...AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) The Vatican strongly criticized the ordination...
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Vatican is hard-to-penetrate world of its own
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/4/2005; ; 576 words
; ...Worldstream 02-04-2005 Dateline: VATICAN CITY The "catholic" in Roman Catholic...means "universal," but access to Vatican City, the tiny independent city...of the secrecy in which much of Vatican life is steeped. Thousands of outsiders...
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Vatican Excommunicates Chinese Bishops
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Online 05-04-2006 Dateline: VATICAN CITY Chinese girls doing sketches outside...Wednesday installed a bishop without Vatican approval, the second in three days...AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) The Vatican lashed out Thursday at Beijing...
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Vatican
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...VATICAN The Holy See (State of the Vatican City) Santa Sede (Stato della Citt...about half the acreage. Outside Vatican City itself, extraterritoriality is...Italian is the official language of Vatican City, but Latin is the official language...
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Vatican City
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
Vatican City Official name: State of the Vatican City (also known as The Holy See...TOPOGRAPHIC REGIONS Although Vatican City is built on a slight hill, the...INLAND LAKES There are no lakes in Vatican City. 7 RIVERS AND WATERFALLS Italy...
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Vatican, The
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Vatican, The The term Vatican , like the word Washington...independent state within the city of Rome. Ecclesiologically...The governance of Vatican City is delegated to the Pontifical...world-class museums. The Vatican City budget is normally...
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Vatican City State
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia
Vatican City State Basic Data Official Country Name: Vatican City State (Holy See) Region: Europe Population: 880...entity that is located in what is usually referred to as Vatican City, may be most easily defined as the central government...
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Vatican and the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...April 1994), and in 2000 the Vatican signed a Basic Agreement with...the al-Aqsa Intifada the Vatican used its influence to ensure...example of coexistence, the Vatican's position in the region...Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle...
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