Rich Varano, a professional sand artist from the United States, has been guiding sculptors from the Netherlands, Russia and the Czech Republic to craft the Vatican’s Nativity Scene in St. Peter’s Square. Varano, 60, doesn’t mind if you call him “Mr. Sandman.” Read the full story on
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 7 December, 2018 | Topics:
Embassy, News
| Tags: Christmas
Pope Francis expressed his prayers and condolences upon the passing of former President George H.W. Bush. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin sent the following telegram December 5 on behalf of Pope Francis to the President of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo: His Eminence Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo Archbishop of Galveston-Houston ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 6 December, 2018 | Topics:
Embassy, News, U.S. & Holy See
| Tags: Pope Francis, President George H. W. Bush, U.S & Holy See, U.S. Embassy Holy See
Ambassador Gingrich’s Remarks at the Tri-Mission Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Rome, Italy November 30, 2018 Good afternoon. Welcome to our Christmas tree lighting ceremony! It’s a pleasure to be here with Ambassador Eisenberg, Chargé Duffy, and our Tri-Mission Community. I’d like to thank our CLO for organizing today’s ceremony, and our GSO for decorating this beautiful tree! As ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 30 November, 2018 | Topics:
Ambassador, Embassy, News
| Tags: Christmas
Ambassador Gingrich’s Remarks U.S. Italy Tri-Mission’s 2018 Locally Employed Staff Thanksgiving Rome, Italy November 20, 2018 Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us as we honor our locally employed staff this Thanksgiving season. I would like to extend a special thanks to our CLO for organizing this afternoon’s gathering. Thanksgiving is one of our family’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 20 November, 2018 | Topics:
Embassy, Events, News
| Tags: Embassy, Thanksgiving
Rome, Italy November 7, 2018 Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, and friends – welcome to Villa Richardson! I’d like to thank our Vatican partners for being here this evening, and for organizing tomorrow’s important conference on clean water. I’d also like to acknowledge our diplomatic colleagues from France, Italy, Monaco, and Peru for helping make this ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 7 November, 2018 | Topics:
Ambassador, Embassy, Environment, Events, News
| Tags: Ambassador Gingrich, energy insecurity, Vatican water conference, water issues
Remarks by Ambassador Gingrich at the 243rd Marine Corps Birthday Ball November 3, 2018 Rome, Italy Thank you, Gunnery Sergeant Hancock. Ambassador Eisenberg, Chargé Duffy, distinguished guests, and Marines – good evening! Thank you for the opportunity to be with you as we celebrate the 243rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Few American ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 4 November, 2018 | Topics:
Ambassador, Embassy, Events, Featured Event, News, Speeches
| Tags: Ambassador Gingrich, Marine Corps Birthday Ball, Marines, military, U. S. Marine Corps
Have you seen our
new Instagram page ? The
U.S. Embassy to the Holy See Instagram launched this month, adding to our current social media presence on
Facebook and
Twitter . Unlike the other two platforms, Instagram is photography-based. Therefore, we will be able to share photos from our events, announcements, and articles in a photo-friendly way. We’ve already got several photos up. Check us out at ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 31 October, 2017 | Topics:
Embassy, News, Public Affairs
Public Affairs Assistant Uta Sievers gave a presentation on funding opportunities through U.S. embassies as part of an annual week-long workshop organized by the
SOFIA Salvatorian Office for International Aid to help religious congregations fundraise and write grant proposals. Through the workshop, the organization hopes to increase their participants’ chances of making their projects come to fruition. The event has been ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 20 September, 2017 | Topics:
Embassy, Federal Benefits, Public Affairs, U.S. & Holy See
| Tags: fundraising, grants, SOFIA
This week, Political Officer Emmett Sapp, Public Affairs Assistant Uta Sievers, and U.S. Embassy to the Holy See interns joined students from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as other interns and students from across the globe at the
Lay Center in Rome. The Lay Center strives to provide formation for all peoples through religious education and promoting ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 13 September, 2017 | Topics:
Education, Embassy, News
On June 27th, Chargé d’Affaires, Louis Bono and his wife, Jennie, hosted the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See’s annual Independence Day Celebration. The guests of honor were His Excellency Charles C. Thompson, Archbishop of Indianapolis, His Excellency Paul D. Etienne, Archbishop of Anchorage, and His Eminence Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Cardinal Archbishop of Newark, who all ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 5 July, 2017 | Topics:
Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy, Events, Key Officials, U.S. & Holy See, Video
| Tags: archbishop etienne, archbishop thompson, cardinal burke, cardinal tobin, July 4th
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See manages a small grants program with the goal of furthering U.S. foreign policy goals, in particular goals we share with the Holy See. Check back here for the next grants announcement.
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 1 July, 2017 | Topics:
Embassy, Fact Sheets, Federal Benefits, Public Affairs
| Tags: Catholic NGOs, funding, priorities
Ambassador Ken Hackett completed his three and a half years as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and started his well-deserved retirement on January 19, 2017. In this three minute video, the Ambassador talks about working with the Holy See on human rights, human trafficking, peace building, poverty, concerns about minorities in the Middle East, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 25 January, 2017 | Topics:
Embassy, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News, Video
Faith and diplomacy: Hackett reflects on role as U.S. envoy to Vatican By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service 12.15.2016 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Ken Hackett, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, is gearing up to try retirement for the second time. The retired president of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas aid agency, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 16 December, 2016 | Topics:
Embassy, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News
| Tags: Catholic News Service, Ken Hackett, Kenneth F. Hackett
On September 13, Public Affairs Officer Tanya Salseth spoke at a training workshop run by SOFIA, the Salvatorian Office for International Aid, about grant opportunities offered by U.S. Embassies. In the audience were 60 members of religious congregations, and lay people working with them, who had traveled from all parts of the world to Rome for the week-long workshop. By highlighting the three key ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 14 September, 2016 | Topics:
Embassy, Public Affairs, U.S. Agencies
| Tags: Catholic Church, federal benefits, fundraising, grants, religious, SOFIA
On September 8, the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See hosted over 30 journalists from around the world for a reception and conversation about the embassy’s unique bilateral relationship with the Vatican. Political Counselor Peter Martin spoke with 38 visitors from around the world who were in Rome for
“The Church Up Close” , a bi-annual seminar for journalists, organized by ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 9 September, 2016 | Topics:
Embassy, Public Affairs, U.S. & Holy See
| Tags: Church Up Close, holy cross, journalist, pontifical university, santa croce
On July 1, 2016, Ambassador Ken Hackett and his wife Joan hosted the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See’s annual Fourth of July celebration at their Gianicolo Hill home.
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 5 July, 2016 | Topics:
Embassy, Featured Event, Former U.S. Ambassadors
| Tags: Fourth of July, Independence Day, July 4, Marines
The Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See organized and sponsored a conflict prevention training at the
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). The participants, women religious working in areas affected by conflict, focused on strategic planning, conflict analysis frameworks and problem solving in the search for peaceful resolutions to conflict. The highly interactive training on peacebuilding, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 16 May, 2016 | Topics:
Embassy, Events, Former U.S. Ambassadors, Human Rights, Speeches
| Tags: Angelicum, conflict, Conflict resolution, grants, sisters, UISG, United States Institute of Peace, women religious
The Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See sponsored the launch of the book
Preaching Justice Volume II, a collection of writing that documents the contribution of Dominican Sisters to social ethics in the 20th century. Several of the book’s contributors wrote about how the Dominican Sisters have built peace across the world, resisting oppression and promoting healthcare while working ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 13 May, 2016 | Topics:
Education, Embassy, Events, Human Rights
| Tags: Dominican Sisters, grants, Preaching Justice, sisters, South Africa
Care for the environment and international religious freedom were at the forefront of an Embassy-sponsored conference on the shared policy interests of the United States and the Holy See this week. The conference, “On Care for Our Common Home: U.S. and Vatican Engagement on Global Issues,” brought together Embassy and Vatican officials as well as ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 13 April, 2016 | Topics:
Alumni, Embassy, Environment, Events, Featured Event, Former U.S. Ambassadors, Human Rights, Scholarships and Exchanges, Success Stories, U.S. & Holy See
| Tags: diplomacy, grants, integral ecology, international religious freedom, International Visitor Leadership Program, IRF, IVLP, Laudato Si, Vatican
Thursday, the Good Shepherd International Foundation screened its documentary
Maisha: A New Life Outside the Mines in Rome. The film, which documented the cobalt and copper mining industries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See. The documentary tells the story of the mining community in Kolwezi and how the Good Shepherd sisters are helping ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 29 October, 2015 | Topics:
Embassy, Events, Former U.S. Ambassadors, Human Rights, Video
| Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Good Shepherd International Foundation, Good Shepherd Sisters, grants, labor exploitation, mining
50 years ago, the Second Vatican Council released the declaration Nostra Aetate, which noted the spiritual and intellectual contributions of the world’s major religions and particularly decried acts of antisemitism. In town for the anniversary, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Ira Forman and Acting U.S. Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Arsalan Suleman ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 29 October, 2015 | Topics:
Embassy, Human Rights, Key Officials
| Tags: Forman, grants, interfaith dialogue, interreligious dialogue, Nostra aetate, Office of Religion and Global Affairs, Pontifical Gregorian University, RGA, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Suleman
This week the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See begins its move to a new Chancery building that will be a significant upgrade in the quality, size, and safety of our facility.
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 20 August, 2015 | Topics:
Embassy, U.S. & Holy See, Video
Palazzo della Cancelleria Mr Ambassador, Your Eminences, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am happy to extend my sincerest thanks to you, Mr Ambassador, for the kind invitation to speak on the occasion of the commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and the Holy ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 23 January, 2014 | Topics:
Embassy, Events, Key Officials, Speeches, Success Stories, U.S. & Holy See
