International Business News - Vat http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A top rabbi addressing a worldwide meeting of Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican on Monday condemned the Iranian president's verbal attacks on Israel. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/rabbi-at-vatican-meeting-condemns-iran-president.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:16:57 EDT Pope Benedict XVI says the global financial crisis show the futility of money and ambition. Benedict says that "now with the collapse of big banks we see that money disappears, is nothing and all these things that appear real are in fact of secondary importance." He urges those who build their lives "only on things that are visible, such as success, career, money" to keep that in mind. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/pope-financial-crisis-shows-futility-of-money.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:17:26 EDT Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people's lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/145582-italy-pope.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/pope-decries-modern-godless-societies.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/pope-decries-modern-godless-societies.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:54:29 EDT A top Vatican official said Tuesday that the world's financial crisis is the result of the search for short-term profits as a goal in itself--and an example of what happens when basic rights and the common good are ignored. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/vatican-no-2-blasts-search-for-quick-profits.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:24:51 EDT The first solar panels were installed Monday on top of the papal audience hall at Vatican City. Workers began putting photovoltaic cells on the roof of the hall to convert sunlight into electricity. In sunny Rome, engineers say the cells will produce enough electricity to illuminate, heat or cool the hall. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142274-aptopix-vatican-going-solar.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/solar-panels-installed-on-vatican-roof.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/solar-panels-installed-on-vatican-roof.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:32:48 EDT Pope Benedict XVI has urged tourists to respect the environment and local cultures, touching again on a theme that has earned him a reputation as the "green pope." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080927/pope-says-tourists-must-not-harm-the-planet.htm Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:30:57 EDT A Roman Catholic priest in Atlantic City, N.J., has told officials that he was a victim of a scam by an Italian businessman who also was actress Anne Hathaway's boyfriend. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/nj-monsignor-says-he-was-victim-in-follieri-scam.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:17:13 EDT Greece has finally taken possession of a chunk of the Elgin Marbles, and now holds renewed hopes of regaining the rest. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Tuesday presented Greek authorities with a small piece of sculpture from the Parthenon kept in a museum in Palermo, Sicily, for the past 200 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136875-greece-italy.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/italy-returns-piece-of-parthenon-marbles-to-greece.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/italy-returns-piece-of-parthenon-marbles-to-greece.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:11:32 EDT Communist authorities in Hanoi have threatened to take legal action against the city's archbishop unless he immediately disbands illegal prayer vigils to demand the return of former church lands, state media reported Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136194-vietnam-catholic-land-dispute.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/hanoi-church-must-end-vigils-or-face-legal-action.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/hanoi-church-must-end-vigils-or-face-legal-action.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:07:30 EDT Since Tony Alamo's start as a California street preacher more than 40 years ago, the self-styled evangelist's story has been colorful and checkered. When his wife died of cancer, Alamo claimed she would be resurrected and kept her body on display for six months while their followers prayed. It would be 16 years before her body was returned to her family. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136461-evangelist-child-porn.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/6-children-in-ark-custody-after-raid-on-compound.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/6-children-in-ark-custody-after-raid-on-compound.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:28:46 EDT In a state known for bustling, exciting tourist destinations such as Waikiki and the Kilauea volcano, Kalaupapa is sacred ground, with a history of disease, suffering and isolation. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/135844-leprosy-settlement.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080921/damien-sainthood-poses-dilemma-for-leper-colony.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080921/damien-sainthood-poses-dilemma-for-leper-colony.htm Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:24:56 EDT An Associated Press reporter in Vietnam was punched, choked and hit over the head with a camera by police who detained him Friday while he covered a Catholic prayer vigil in the communist country. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/ap-reporter-detained-beaten-by-police-in-vietnam.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:33:33 EDT The bishop of an unregistered Roman Catholic church in northern China has returned home, after being taken away by authorities on the last day of the Beijing Olympics, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/us-group-china-releases-underground-church-bishop.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:15:55 EDT Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday that his predecessor Pius XII spared no effort to save Jews from the Nazis, one of the strongest Vatican defenses of a pontiff accused of silence during the Holocaust. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/pope-defends-wartime-pontiff-pius-xii.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:21:42 EDT A cardinal says that Pope Benedict XVI will not attend an event in Mexico City next year because the city sits too high above sea level for someone his age. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/133455-vatican-pope.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/vatican-says-pope-too-old-to-travel-to-mexico-city.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/vatican-says-pope-too-old-to-travel-to-mexico-city.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:32:13 EDT The son of former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Raymond Flynn says his father is undergoing medical tests after collapsing during a speaking engagement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/son-ex-boston-mayor-flynn-collapsed-at-speech.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:32:12 EDT The son of former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Raymond Flynn says his father is undergoing medical tests after collapsing at a speaking engagement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/son-ex-boston-mayor-flynn-collapsed-at-speech.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:21:06 EDT Venezuela is urging the Vatican to turn over a government opponent who has sought refuge inside the Vatican's diplomatic mission for the past year and a half. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/venezuela-urges-vatican-to-turn-over-opponent.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:02:00 EDT A Venezuelan government opponent who has sought refuge inside the Vatican's diplomatic mission for the last year and a half has been granted asylum by the Holy See, his lawyer said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/lawyer-vatican-grants-venezuelan-dissident-asylum.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:12:30 EDT People must accept death at "the hour chosen by God," Pope Benedict XVI told ailing pilgrims Monday in an anti-euthanasia message at Lourdes, the shrine that draws the desperate, sick and dying. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/pope-accept-death-at-the-hour-chosen-by-god.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:07:18 EDT