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The Institute for the Works of Religion (Italian: Istituto per le Opere di Religione; Latin: Institutum pro Operibus Religionis; abbreviated IOR), [4] [5] commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a financial institution [2] that is situated inside Vatican City and run by a Board of Superintendence, which reports to a Commission of Cardinals and ...
7 January 2021 – Australia's financial watchdog is reviewing calculations for transfers worth US$1.8 billion sent to the country from the Vatican since 2014, after the Vatican and the Australian Church call for clarification. The transfers ranged from yearly totals of A$71.6 million (US$55.2 million) in 2014 to A$581.3 million in 2017, with ...
The bank came to be known as the "priests' bank"; one chairman was Franco Ratti, nephew to Pope Pius XI. In the 1960s, the bank began to expand its business, opening a holding company in Luxembourg in 1963 which came to be known as Banco Ambrosiano Holding. This was under the direction of Carlo Canesi, then a senior manager, and from 1965 chairman.
Official Vatican delegations have been traveling to Vietnam almost every year since 1990 for meetings with its government authorities and to visit Catholic dioceses. In March 2007, a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam and met with local officials. [64] In October 2014, Pope Francis met with Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng in Rome.
The Pope would again meet Vietnamese leader Trần Đại Quang and his associates in the Vatican in 2016. [19] Vietnam remains the only Asian communist country to have an unofficial representative of the Vatican in the country and has held both official and unofficial meetings with the Vatican's representatives both in Vietnam and the Holy See ...
Christianity was first introduced to Vietnam in the 16th century. [1] Christians represent a significant minority in Vietnam: Catholics and Protestants were reported to compose 7% and 2% of the country's population respectively in 2020. However, the real number of Christian in Vietnam is 10% to 12%.
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The Dicastery for Communication, which oversees Vatican News, is responsible for supervising various communication channels within the Holy See. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These channels include Vatican Radio , L'Osservatore Romano (the Vatican's daily newspaper), and Vatican Media , all of which collectively contribute to the comprehensive multimedia ...