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WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sister Mary Hughes of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an association representing about 80 percent of U.S. Catholic nuns, will discuss her organization's dispute with the Vatican during a National Press Club Luncheon on Aug. 16 . The coalition's national Assembly is taking place now through Aug. 10 in St. Louis. During this gathering, members are debating how to deal with a critical report issued this year by the...
Website Covers Pope, Vatican, Controversies WASHINGTON, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EIN News, a leading media monitoring company, has added Pope Benedict XVI News Today (benedictxvi.einnews.com) to its vast portfolio of websites that provide breaking news on industry, business, politics, sports, entertainment and many other topics.The website provides continuous news coverage of Pope Benedict XVI, see e.g.:- Pope Benedict XVI & Gay Marriage -...
MANCHESTER, England, May 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Author Sam Jane Brown takes readers on a journey through mysterious murders occurring within the Vatican in her new book, 'Forgotten Word.' The Vatican's never-ending battle between good and evil leads readers to a climactic and shocking finale; the second coming of Jesus Christ and the upheaval of international religious freedom the ban of religion world-wide. Could humanity's freedom of religion be at risk? Brown asserts that...
The notorious hacking group Anonymous took down several Vatican websites on Wednesday, calling the Catholic Church "corrupt." The group took down www.vatican.va, as well as several Vatican-related sites including that of its newspaper. The hackers said it decided to take down the sites in "response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organization spreads around the world." "This attack is not against the Christian religion...
International Raelian Movement announces possession of letter in which U.K. Cabinet admits to blocking a lawsuit against the Pope * LAS VEGAS, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Raelian Movement (IRM) says it has in its possession a letter from the U.K. Cabinet proving the U.K. Cabinet complicit in crimes of pedophilia as well as in crimes against humanity. The IRM (www.rael.org) filed a lawsuit against the Pope during his visit to the United Kingdom in...
ROME, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- News Summary: EMC is the main sponsor of 'Lux in Arcana,' an exhibition which will bring into the public domain for the first time in 400 years 100 original historical documents from the Vatican Secret Archive. As part of the sponsorship, EMC revealed that the exhibition will include a letter written by Marie Antoinette while she was in prison in 1793. The letter was allegedly sent to Louis XVI's brother Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, who...
Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitized to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky. The Library needed a way of scanning the delicate old manuscripts and storing the files so that they could still be read in hundreds of years. The answer was the special file format used by ESA for most of its scientific satellites. In the 1970s ESA and NASA scientists developed ‘FITS’, the flexible image...
His Holiness the Pope made a video call to the International Space Station in May, talking with all 12 astronauts on ISS including the Shuttle crew for 20 minutes. This morning, he welcomed the astronauts to his summer residence. ESA astronauts Paolo Nespoli and Roberto Vittori and their crewmates from their MagISStra and DAMA missions visited the Pontifical Villa of Castel Gandolfo in Italy for a private audience with his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. During the audience, Paolo...
The Vatican will roll out a new Facebook page this week to promote the upcoming May 1st beatification of Pope John Paul II, the Associated Press reported on Saturday. Among other things, the new site will link to video highlights of the late pontiff's 27-year papacy, and may well continue beyond May given the widespread interest in Pope John Paul II, the AP quoted Vatican officials as saying.Indeed, the Vatican's first event-themed Facebook page, which was dedicated to Pope Benedict XVI's...
MIAMI, Dec. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Shawn Rae's unique Christmas Album, A World Christmas, Love Knows No Borders, was considered for a Grammy nomination earlier this year. The Album was inspired by the "Dialogue" in 2007 between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Pope Benedict XVI, one, which was endorsed by more than 460 organizations from around the world, including the Chief Rabbis of Israel, and the United Nations. This "Dialogue" promoted a wide discussion on the urgency for religious...
