Court reinstates Holocaust case against Vatican Bank

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Posted on Mon, Apr. 18, 2005

DAVID KRAVETS
Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Monday reinstated a lawsuit brought by survivors of the Holocaust in Croatia, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia who allege the Vatican Bank accepted millions of dollars of their valuables stolen by Nazi sympathizers.

The Vatican Bank, the financial arm of the Roman Catholic Church, denies allegations that during World War II it stored the looted assets from thousands of gypsies, Jews, Serbs and others who were killed or captured by the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime that controlled Croatia.

A federal judge had dismissed the 1999 case, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the survivors should have their day in court in an effort to be compensated for their monetary losses, and to be given an accounting of what money, if any, the bank received from the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime.

An attorney for the survivors and their beneficiaries said the decision, combined with a new pope expected to be named any day, could spark an out-of-court settlement.

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[Spangle]

1. What about compensation to survivers of the Inqustion?

Their land, money, goods was taken away by the church. IF their children survived, they got nothing. But felt blessed to be alive.

The Church GAVE Portagual Africa. It was the belief that those that are not Christians COULD be sold as slaves. And so, the Africans were sold as slaves around the world.

The Church GAVE South America to both Portagul and Spain. Spain gave the Indians 2 choices. Accept Christ and become a slave, or death. Slaves to mind the Gold of S. America.

Then there is the Middle East.

Most of Rome's treasures do not belong to Rome. Now days, if you HAVE and claim to OWN ancient artificats... you would soon be proven wrong. The orginal country would demand it's return.

Rome should return what it has stollen from the world. Not keep them selfishly hidden.

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2. Bits and pieces

are being returned.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4947234,00.html