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The California Science Center Just Ranked Among The World’s Top 10 Museums — According To A Study Of 82,000 Reviews
Secret Los Angeles - California
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August 19, 2025
Kit Leong via Shutterstock. An essential part of any vacation or quick trip, for many people, is exploring museums with their endless halls filled with art, culture, and science. These spaces are key to making a travel experience feel truly...
'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,...
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...
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...
'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...
Raising children with religion: Why some adults return to faith
Deseret News - Utah
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August 19, 2025
This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. In my research on why some younger people are returning to faith, I’ve learned that this decision is often tied...
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...
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...
100 Days of Pope Leo
Today's Catholic - Indiana
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August 19, 2025
During the homily at his inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV said: “I was chosen, without any merit of my own, and now, with fear and trembling, I come to you as a brother, who desires to be the servant of your faith and your joy, walking with you on...
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...
'We're going to find out about Putin,' Trump says - as he teases air support for Ukraine
Sky News
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August 19, 2025
Donald Trump has said American troops will not be sent to Ukraine, but the US may provide air support as part of a peace deal with Russia. A day after his extraordinary White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the...
Nature abuse threatens human lives – Cardinal Turkson slams ‘galamseyers’
MyJoyOnline
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August 19, 2025
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a prominent figure at the Vatican, has delivered a searing critique of illegal mining, locally known as "galamsey", asserting that the destruction of nature is a direct threat to human life. His remarks, rooted...
'We're going to find out about Putin,' Trump says - as he teases air support for Ukraine
Sky News
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August 19, 2025
Donald Trump has said American troops will not be sent to Ukraine, but the US may provide air support as part of a peace deal with Russia. A day after his extraordinary White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the...