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☆ 'Gladiator II' director Ridley Scott says he 'wouldn't advise' vacationing in Malta, angering a government that paid $48 million for him to film there
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-28 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ridley Scott has advised against vacationing in Malta, a film location for "Gladiator II." Director Ridley Scott has advised people to avoid visiting Malta, one of the filming locations for his action flick, "Gladiator II." Advertisement"Gladiator II" received a €46.7 million — about $48 million — rebate for working in the country, according to the Times of Malta. She then urged the film industry to also focus on local talent, saying the industry "deserves much better." Representatives for Scott, Grech, Zahra, Delia, Paramount Global, and the Malta Film Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: Ridley Scott, Scott, Christopher Nolan, Paul Mescal, Shane Anthony Sinclair, Johann Grech, Julie Zahra, Grech, Adrian Delia, Delia, Clayton Bartolo, Bartolo, Zahra Organizations: Times, Facebook, Malta Independent, Paramount Global, Malta Film, Business Locations: Malta, Times of Malta, Croatia, Iceland, Grech

☆ Malta, Land of Knights, Sailors and Rainbow Flags
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Alexander Lobrano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Knowing nothing about Maltese food, I assumed it would be a variation on the fare of nearby Sicily. “Our food is a reflection of all of the peoples who ruled us,” he said, explaining that Malta has one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cuisines. Baroque masterworks and neon-lit nightlifeMalta is only 122 square miles, so 72 hours had seemed like an adequate amount of time to explore. I decided to check out the main island first, and then Valletta itself after that. The delightful Anna Grech Sant, a local guide, offered an abbreviated but fascinating lesson in Maltese history, richly seasoned with memorable trivia.

Persons: ruddy, bouillon, Brincat, ”, Anna Grech Sant Organizations: British Navy Locations: Sicily, Malta, Libya, India, Northern Europe, Bolognese, Gozo, Valletta

☆ Opinion: Why we’re still waiting for the Catholic women’s ‘revolution’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Opinion Opinion Celia Wexler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Editor’s Note: Celia Wexler is a journalist and the author of “Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope.” She writes frequently on Catholicism, feminism and politics. That means in the United States, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, that bastion of conservatism, will do the choosing. Will Zagano, who has written extensively about the role of women deacons in the early church, be given a vote? How about British theologian Tina Beattie, who has worked tirelessly to amplify women’s voices in the church? In 2014, Beattie founded Catholic Women Speak, an international group of women focused on one goal: increasing women’s participation in the life and governance of the church.

Rome CNN —Pope Francis will allow women to participate and vote for the first time at an upcoming meeting of Catholic bishops in October. The meeting, known as a synod, normally only allows bishops to vote. Pope Francis on Wednesday approved guidelines that will expand participation and voting to include lay people and women. The changes allow for the participation of 70 non-bishop members, of whom 50% should be women, according to the Vatican’s synod office. A synod is a gathering of bishops which takes place at the request of the pope to discuss a particular topic.

☆ Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops' meeting
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, a historic reform that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Francis approved changes to the norms governing the Synod of Bishops, a Vatican body that gathers the world's bishops together for periodic meetings, following years of demands by women to have the right to vote. At the end of the meetings, the bishops vote on specific proposals and put them to the pope, who then produces a document taking their views into account. In addition, Francis has decided to appoint 70 non-bishop members of the synod and has asked that half of them be women. He has appointed several women to high-ranking Vatican positions, though no women head any of the major Vatican offices or departments, known as dicasteries.

☆ Vaccinarea anti-COVID-19 a început oficial în toate ţările Uniunii Europene
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-27 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +6 min

Femeia a declarat că nu a simţit nimic atunci când a fost vaccinată. Leif Hasselberg, 79 de ani, a fost prima persoană care a fost vaccinată în această ţară, relatează dpa. Rachel Grech, angajată la unitatea de boli infecţioase a spitalului Mater Dei, a fost vaccinată sub privirile premierului Robert Abela şi ale ministrului sănătăţii Chris Fearne. „Cred că acesta este suflul libertăţii”, a declarat Caputova, imediat după ce a primit vaccinul Pfizer-BioNTech. „Nu a durut”, a declarat ea, citată de agenţia de presă PAP.

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