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  1. May 14, 2024 · The Vaticans Gamble With Beijing Is Costing Chinas Catholics. In trying to hold the Church together, Pope Francis has compromised on religious freedom. By Francis X. Rocca. Illustration...

  2. St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City The 20th century saw many developments in the relationship between Catholic-Protestant relations. In 1910, the International Missionary Conference was held in Edinburgh in an attempt to unify non-Roman churches.

  3. Sep 24, 2021 · Vatican. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states, speaks in a prerecorded video released Sept. 21, 2021, to high-level U.N. meeting in New York and posted to the ...

  4. Apr 13, 2024 · A map showing the Ager Vaticanus on the west bank of the Tiber River. Source: Wikimedia Commons The dominion of the pope has existed for over one thousand years, though Vatican City was not always the stage from where the pope ruled. Originally, the area where the Vatican now sits, called the Ager Vaticanus, was the site of Roman attractions such as the Circus of Nero, marked

  5. Feb 29, 2024 · Human rights, including those against freedom of thought, conscience and religion, continue to be violated on an alarming scale across the globe, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva said on Wednesday. Discrimination and persecution of believers are on the rise

  6. 2 days ago · In 1929 Vatican Citys independent sovereignty was recognized by the Fascist Italian government in the Lateran Treaty. Sovereignty is exercised by the pope upon his election as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He has absolute executive, legislative, and judicial powers within the city.

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  8. Apr 1, 2016 · Rome, the Eternal City, is home to Vatican City, the 109-acre city-state run by the Catholic Church and the seat of Roman Catholicism. At St. Peter’s Basilica—or St. Peter’s Square if the ...