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'Bodh Gaya should be Vatican of East': Author blasts govt for letting Indian tourism rot
Business Today
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August 18, 2025
India's 1.4 billion people attract fewer foreign tourists than a single European city, said author and scientist Dr Anand Ranganathan, who blasted the Indian government for failing to act on "low-hanging fruit" like tourism during an event...
Paper claims Vatican II reforms contributed to drop in Mass attendances
Catholic News
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August 17, 2025
Bishops at a Vatican II session inside St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican (CNS) An economics paper published last month on religious service attendance trends in 66 countries concluded that the implementation of reforms associated with the Second...
Nanotechnology-Enhanced Extracellular Vesicles -Based Chipsets in Early Cancer Detection and Theranostics
Dove Medical Press
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August 14, 2025
Swastika Maitra,1 Subham Sarkar,2 Muktesh Chandra,3 Suhas Ballal,4 Rishiv Kalia,5 Renu Arya,6 Magdi EA Zaki,7 Daniel Ejim Uti8,9 1Centre for Global Health Research, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University,...
Faith and science align on Africa climate resilience at Vatican-led summit
Forests News
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August 15, 2025
MAST: A new framework for action A key highlight of the summit was the endorsement of the Mitigation, Adaptation and Societal Transformation (MAST) framework – a three-pillar strategy designed to move Africa beyond reactive responses and into a...
Economics paper suggests Mass decline tied to Vatican II implementation
Catholic News Agency
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August 15, 2025
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2025 / 12:41 pm An economics paper published last month on religious service attendance trends in 66 countries concluded that the implementation of reforms associated with the Second Vatican Council likely...
Vatican accused of secret money-laundering tool as Pope Leo faces financial crisis
Natural News
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August 13, 2025
Vatican accused of secret money-laundering tool as Pope Leo faces financial crisis Former Vatican auditor Libero Milone alleges the Holy See’s payroll agency had a secret tool to alter bank transfers, enabling money laundering by masking sender...
'It costs us more to visit York Minster than the Vatican'
BBC
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Seb CheerBBC News, Yorkshire ShareSave Alin Hickey and Kay Rogers visited York from Australia and opted to tour different attractions because of the Minster's entry fee York Minster is one of the leading landmarks of the city - a symbol of both...
Let’s Prevent AI “from creating a system of domination”: Vatican Official at Congress of Catholic Journalists in Africa
ACI Africa
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August 13, 2025
Perceived as a system of domination, Dr. Ruffini said, “AI is wrongly considered infallible, invulnerable, and omniscient - in contradiction even with the scientific presupposition that underpins it – that machine can break down complex cognitive...
Pope Leo is becoming the climate champion we need
Gulf Today
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August 18, 2025
While the leader of 340 million Americans furiously works to derail climate action, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is embracing it. In May, when Pope Leo XIV succeeded the late Pope Francis, I suggested he could be the kind of climate...
Behind in the tourism race? Just 99.52 lakh foreign tourists visited India in 2024
Business Today
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August 18, 2025
India recorded 99.52 lakh foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) in 2024, with the United States and Bangladesh topping the list of source countries over the last five years, Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat told the Lok Sabha on Monday....
Vatican astronomer praises NZ's dark sky sanctuaries
1News
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The director of the Vatican's astronomical observatory has talked up the value of "dark-sky" sanctuaries, ahead of a trip to visit to a sanctuary near Lake Tekapo. The Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, which ranges across the lower...
7 Articles to get an overview of Church and science
Aleteia
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August 12, 2025
We invite you to take a look at this brief series, and finish with a better understanding of 2,000 years of (sometimes messy) cooperation. When you hear of the Catholic Church and "following the science" (to use the currently popular term),...
Pleas for Vatican aid as Russian adoption database shows Ukraine's children
The Catholic Register
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August 12, 2025
Ukrainian child advocate Mykola Kuleba is pleading for the Vatican's assistance, after publicly highlighting what he said was one of several databases used by Russian occupation officials to market abducted Ukrainian children to Russian foster and...
Politico: Former Vatican Auditor Alleges System Enabled Money Laundering
The Gateway Pundit
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August 12, 2025
Politico has published new claims from Libero Milone, a former auditor from Deloitte who was appointed by the Vatican in 2015. Milone alleges that the Vatican’s payroll agency was able to change names and account numbers on transactions after they...
Advocate pleads for Vatican aid as Russian adoption database shows Ukraine's children
Detroit Catholic
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August 11, 2025
(OSV News) ─ Ukrainian child advocate Mykola Kuleba is pleading for the Vatican's assistance, after publicly highlighting what he said was one of several databases used by Russian occupation officials to market abducted Ukrainian children to...
With new Vatican ambassador, Trump sends culture-war message to American Catholics
Religion News Service
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August 11, 2025
With new Vatican ambassador, Trump sends culture-war message to American Catholics (RNS) — The new US ambassador to the Holy See may faithfully represent the White House's conservative agenda, but his appointment's real purpose seems to be to sow...
Opinion | Government Support For Religion Doesn’t Necessarily Make People More Religious
Mississippi Free Press
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August 18, 2025
The IRS will offer religious congregations more freedom to endorse political candidates without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status, the agency said in a July 2025 court filing. President Donald Trump has previously vowed to abolish the Johnson...
In new adult bestsellers, a Shari Lapena novel and a look at power
The Virginian-Pilot
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August 18, 2025
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Aug. 2, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of...
COMMENTARY: Pope Leo is becoming climate champion we need
News Tribune - Missouri
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August 18, 2025
While the leader of 340 million Americans furiously works to derail climate action, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is embracing it. In May, when Pope Leo XIV succeeded the late Pope Francis, I suggested he could be the kind of climate...
Pope Leo invites local homeless people to lunch at summer villa
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...