News tagged with pope benedict
Pope calls for responsible, credible climate deal
(AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI called Sunday for delegates attending this week's U.N. climate change conference in South Africa to craft a responsible and credible deal to cut greenhouse gases that takes into ...
Nov 27, 2011 |
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Hackers attack site of Catholic youth celebrations
Hackers temporarily blocked the official World Youth Day site Thursday just as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Madrid to preside over the festivities, a spokeswoman for the event said.
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Pope may go online to launch Vatican news portal
(AP) -- The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media with the launch next week of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Vatican to launch Internet news portal next week
(AP) -- The Vatican is taking a leap into the world of new media next week with the launch of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click.
Jun 25, 2011 |
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Popemobile 'to become green machine': report
Mercedes-Benz is making a greener hybrid Popemobile for Benedict XVI, the Wirtschaftswoche weekly paper said Saturday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Orbiting astronauts chat with Italy's president
(AP) -- The astronauts circling Earth got another VIP call from Rome on Monday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2011 |
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Pope to call space station in papal first
(AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI will be in satellite contact with two Italian astronauts aboard the International Space Station in what would be the first papal call to space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Vatican kicks off countdown to JP2 beatification
(AP) -- The Vatican on Monday kicked off the countdown to Pope John Paul II's beatification by posting a YouTube video of his famous first papal speech, when the Polish-born pontiff asked the Roman crowd in St. Peter's Square ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Friend the pope? John Paul II gets Facebook page
(AP) -- The Vatican will unveil the latest installment in its social media transformation next week - a Facebook page dedicated to the upcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II, officials said.
Mar 12, 2011 |
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Pope to Catholics online: It's not just about hits
(AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic bloggers and Facebook and YouTube users Monday to be respectful of others when spreading the Gospel online and not to see their ultimate goal as getting as many online hits as possible.
Jan 24, 2011 |
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WHO official welcomes Pope's statement on condoms
(AP) -- The World Health Organization on Thursday welcomed a statement by Pope Benedict XVI that condoms can help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Vatican: Everyone can use condoms to prevent HIV
(AP) -- Using a condom is a lesser evil than transmitting HIV to a sexual partner - even if that means a woman averts a possible pregnancy, the Vatican said Tuesday, signaling a seismic shift in papal teaching ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Analysis: Pope's comments add to debate on condoms
(AP) -- With his striking comment on condoms and AIDS, Pope Benedict XVI has started a new chapter in the complex church debate about morality and preventing the spread of HIV.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Pope goes HD with Vatican's new high-definition TV
(AP) -- The pope is going HD.
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Archaeologists Find Oldest Paintings of Apostles in Roman Catacombs
The earliest known icons of the Apostles Peter and Paul have been discovered in a catacomb under an eight-story modern office building in a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Vatican officials said Tuesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 23, 2010 |
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