Posts Tagged ‘theft’
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Vatican official calls leaked documents an ‘immoral’ and ‘brutal’ attack
The Vatican's No. 3 official on Tuesday condemned the theft and publication of secret papal documents as an “immoral act of unheard-of gravity.”
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Woman charged with embezzling $1 million from NY archdiocese
A 67-year-old woman with a criminal record for theft has been charged with siphoning $1 million in donations while working in a finance office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, church officials announced Monday (Ja...
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Metal thieves are damaging British churches
As commodity prices soar, thieves are targeting British churches and other institutions, taking copper lightning rods, lead rain pipes, bronze statues, iron gates, even church bells and entire roofs. “Boom conditions in C...
Arts & Culture
Original Rembrandt stolen, found in a public area of a church
A valuable Rembrandt drawing that was stolen from a resort hotel in California was recovered in an Encino church 20 miles away, three days after its theft. The robbers have not yet been caught. The 17th century Rembrandt pen an...
Arts & Culture
U.K. religious archives being lost, at peril
Many religious archives from the U.K., some dating as far back as the medieval period up to the present, are becoming lost or are at peril, a recent study shows. The survey, which was put together by the U.K. Religious Archives...
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Christian tells thief about Jesus, prevents robbery
When a Florida store manager said recently that Jesus saved her life twice—first through her church and then from a robber, she was more right than even she may have realized at that time. Nayara Goncalves, 20, dissuaded Israel...
Commentary and News
Priest’s double life leads to $1.3 million theft from church
A Catholic priest was charged recently with stealing over $1 million from his church in Waterbury, Conn. to lead a double life in New York of luxury, male escorts, designer clothes and first class hotels. Rev. Kevin Gray, 64, a...