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Vatican City. The Supervisory and Financial Information Authority ( Autorità di Supervisione e Informazione Finanziaria, or ASIF) is the central institution in the Holy See and Vatican City State that is responsible for the prevention and countering of money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of ...
The Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State ( Italian: Corpo della Gendarmeria dello Stato della Città del Vaticano) is the gendarmerie, or military police and security force, of Vatican City, Holy See and its extraterritorial properties. It was founded in 1816 as Corps of Gendarmes by Pope Pius VII, renamed the Central Security Office in 1970 ...
Inscription. 1984 (8th Session) Vatican City ( / ˈvætɪkən / ⓘ ), officially the Vatican City State ( Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; [ f] Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae ), [ g][ h] is a landlocked sovereign country, [ 16][ 17] city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy. [ 18][ 19] It became independent from Italy ...
The Institute for the Works of Religion ( Italian: Istituto per le Opere di Religione; Latin: Institutum pro Operibus Religionis; abbreviated IOR ), [ 4][ 5] commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a financial institution [ 2] that is situated inside Vatican City and run by a Board of Superintendence, which reports to a Commission of Cardinals ...
The Vatican Information Service (VIS) is an official, free news service of the Holy See Press Office, founded in 1991 in the Vatican City during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. It transmits news on a daily basis at 3 p.m. local Rome time, except during the month of August and on public holidays in Vatican City (generally Holy Days of ...
The Apostolic Nunciature to the United States, sometimes referred to as the Vatican Embassy, is the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to the United States. It is located at 3339 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. [ 1] Since 2016, the papal nuncio has been Cardinal Christophe Pierre .
Diplomatic missions to the Holy See. Holy See. Countries with embassies to the Holy See based in Rome. This article lists diplomatic missions accredited to the Holy See, the government of the Catholic Church and the temporal ruler of the Vatican City. 84 countries currently maintain embassies to the Holy See. [ 1]
The Vatican Observatory ( Italian: Specola Vaticana) is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Holy See. Originally based in the Roman College of Rome, the Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in the United States.