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Bulgaria: President's Gift To Pope Provokes Questions From Bloggers
globalvoicesonline.org 5 days, 13 hours agoOn May 24, the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture, and the Slavonic Literature Day , the Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev visited the Vatican. At a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI , President Plevneliev presented a huge Easter egg to him, the work of the Bulgarian sculptor Georgi Andreev. The egg is made of inox steel and is gold-plated, studded with crystal stones (2,000 ruby-red crystals) in the colors of the rainbow, and consists of 11 sections in the form of diamonds, in the middle of which there
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Vatican Justice Medieval: French Lawyer
yahoo.com 21 hours, 17 minutes agoVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's justice system harks back to medieval times and is unlikely to provide the pope's butler with fair treatment after his arrest for leaking confidential documents, according to a French lawyer involved in a previous case in the Holy See. Luc Brossollet is not involved in the so-called "Vatileaks" case shaking the papacy but he said his personal experience suggested the Vatican's judiciary is under the thumb of the Holy See and allows scant regard for the rights of defend
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