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Vatican City State

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Vatican City State
Stato della Città del Vaticano
Flag of Vatican City State
Flag
Coat of arms of Vatican City State
Coat of arms
Location of Vatican City State
GovernmentTheocratic absolute monarchy
• Pope
Francis
Area
• Total
0.49 km²
Population
• 2019 estimate
453


The Vatican City State is a theocratic city-state surrounded by Italy.

History

After Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy, he made Catholicism the state religion, allowing the Vatican to influence education and avoid taxation. During the Second World War, the Vatican funded fascists, and Giovanni Montini worked with the SS and the CIA before he became pope.[1]

In 1982, the Vatican and Spain proposed for the United Nations to celebrate 1992 as the 500th anniversary of the encounter between European and American cultures. African delegates condemned the proposal for celebrating colonialism and genocide.[2]

References

  1. Hugo Turner (2019-07-28). "Ratline: the Vatican, the Nazis & the CIA" Anti-Imperialist U. Archived from the original on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  2. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: 'The Doctrine of Discovery' (p. 197). [PDF] Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807000403