The Holy See and Beijing government jointly announced a two-year extension to the 2018 agreement, which expired Thursday
The national financial crime intelligence agency, two police forces and a public sector corruption watchdog have been drawn into the Vatican scandal
Pope Francis told European anti-money laundering experts Thursday that the Vatican was committed to clean finance, as he denounced financial speculation amid a spiraling corruption investigation
Pompeo made the appeal at a conference on religious freedom organized by the US Embassy to the Holy See, with top Vatican officials in the audience
The accord, first signed in September 2018, is due to be rolled over, possibly for another two years in the coming weeks
The ex-pontiff, who retired in 2013, issued the defence of clerical celibacy in a book written with arch-conservative Cardinal Robert Sarah
Italian television networks that live-stream the Angelus had been concerned that the unprecedented seven-minute delay might have been due to health reasons
The money was frozen following alerts from the Vatican Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF)