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Wizz Air Expands Bratislava Network with New Bucharest Route
Routes
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Wizz Air, Europe’s most environmentally sustainable airline , is delighted to announce a new exciting direct route from Bratislava to Bucharest. Flights will operate from the 28th of October with tickets now available on wizzair.com and WIZZ...
Vatican authorizes devotion at Slovak Marian apparition site without confirming supernatural origin
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 9, 2025
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) has authorized public devotion at an alleged Marian apparition site on Slovakia’s Mount Zvir, where the mother of Christ reportedly appeared in the early 1990s to give messages about the path to...
Việt Nam, Slovakia hold political consultation
Vietnam News Agency
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HÀ NỘI -- Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ngô Lê Văn and Marek Estok, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, who is on a working visit to Việt Nam, co-chaired the Việt Nam - Slovalia political...
Alleged apparitions in Slovakia: What’s the Vatican saying?
The Pillar
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July 9, 2025
The Vatican’s doctrinal office gave the green light Wednesday to devotion associated with alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Slovakia. The pilgrimage site on Mount Zvir, Slovakia, in 2017. Palickap/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0. The Dicastery for...
Vatican gives new nihil obstat to Marian apparitions in Litmanová, Slovakia
Zenit
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July 10, 2025
Considerations about the Spiritual Experience on Mount Zvir (Litmanová, Slovakia) “Let Jesus set you free.” To His Excellency Rev. Msgr. Jonáš Maxim, M.S.U., Archbishop of Prešov For Catholics of the Byzantine rite Dear Brother, You explained to...
‘Operation Monaco’ director: Too western for Stalin, Slovakia now reopens the door to Moscow
The Slovak Spectator
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July 10, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement Although Stalinism expanded successfully across the Eastern Bloc after the Second World War, Bratislava remained a tough nut to crack for the Soviets. The...
Slovak Gunman Who Shot PM To Go On Trial
International Business Times
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July 8, 2025
The man who admitted to shooting Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is due to stand trial on terror charges on Tuesday, more than a year after the attack shocked the central European country. Nationalist, Kremlin-friendly Fico was shot four times...
Vatican gives “nihil obstat” to Slovakian Marian apparitions
Aleteia
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July 9, 2025
While not affirming the supernatural authenticity of the “apparitions” on Mount Zvir in Slovakia, this decision allows public devotion, with some reservations. In a letter published on July 9, 2025, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the...
Vatican grants ‘Nihil obstat’ for Marian devotion on Mount Zvir in Slovakia
Vatican News
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July 9, 2025
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has sent a letter to the Archbishop of Prešov for Byzantine Rite Catholics, confirming the many spiritual fruits connected to Mount Zvir, in Slovakia, where apparitions of Mary allegedly occurred between...
Vatican Approves Marian Devotion in Slovakia but Doesn’t Recognize Apparitions
National Catholic Register
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The letter recognizes the pastoral value of the phenomenon and authorizes public worship without commenting on the supernatural authenticity of the apparitions. The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith granted a nihil obstat — that is,...
Russians publish Ukrainian military data via servers in Slovakia
European Pravda
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A group of Russian websites is conducting a large-scale online campaign against Ukrainian military personnel and activists, publishing their personal data and calling for persecution. As reported by Aktuality, the Investigative Center of Jan...
Russians publish Ukrainian military data via servers in Slovakia – investigation
Ukrainska Pravda
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Stock photo: Getty Images A group of Russian websites is conducting a large-scale online campaign against Ukrainian military personnel and activists, publishing their personal data and calling for persecution. Source: an investigation by the...
Paulíny Hovorka Architects designs a brutalist Y-shaped haven in rural Slovakia
STIRworld
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Perched at a tranquil edge of Banka village in Slovakia’s Trnava Region, the Banánka House merges minimalist clarity with a grounded silhouette. Designed by architects Martin Paulíny and Braňo Hovorka of Paulíny Hovorka Architects, the...
More Irish families have 3+ children than anywhere else in EU
Euro Weekly News
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July 9, 2025
Three young children. Credit: Daniel & Hannah Snipes, Pexels Ireland has emerged as the EU country with the highest share of large families, with more than one in five households with children (20.6 per cent) having three or more kids, according...
Syro-Malabar Church liturgical crisis resolved by compromise
Aleteia
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July 8, 2025
This Eastern Catholic Church has narrowly avoided a schism over liturgical reforms after years of conflict thanks to a compromise between its Synod and priests. Leo XIV has terminated the appointment of Archbishop Cyril Vasil' as papal delegate to...
Sacked Slovak National Theater Chief Calls on European Union to Defend Artistic Freedom From Autocrats
Variety
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July 8, 2025
Matej Drlička, who was dismissed as the head of the Slovak National Theater by the far-right government of Robert Fico, spoke with passion about what was happening in his country at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and called on the film industry...
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation expands free admission days to arts & cultural organizations in Linn County
Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun - Iowa
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July 8, 2025
The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation is pleased to announce the return of Free Admission Days, offering no-cost entry to many of Linn County’s arts and cultural institutions. Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, launched...
Perpetrator of Assassination Attempt on Slovak PM Fico Refuses to Testify
teleSUR
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Juraj Cintula. X/ @IuliiaMendel July 8, 2025 Hour: 1:07 pm On Tuesday, Juraj Cintula, the man who shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in 2024, refused to testify as his trial began at the Specialized Criminal Court in Banska Bystrica. RELATED:...
Suspect in shooting of Slovakia's Prime Minister Fico stands trial on terror charges
Euronews
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July 8, 2025
Published on 08/07/2025 - 13:31 GMT+2 The man who shot and seriously injured Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico last year went on trial on Tuesday on a terrorism charge that could see him imprisoned for life. Juraj Cintula, 72, shouted "long...
Man Who Shot Slovak PM Fico Rails Against Him As Trial Begins
StratNews Global
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July 8, 2025
Home Europe Man Who Shot Slovak PM Fico Rails Against Him As Trial Begins Fico, shot four times and seriously wounded, blamed liberal opposition for fuelling tensions that led to the attack last year, which deepened Slovakia’s political divide....