A German newspaper ran a story in 2006 about suspected anti-Christian bias in voting on a new set of world wonders in Lisbon.
The Vatican, though, also has its nose out of joint over the exclusion of Christian monuments like the Sistine Chapel and the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, head of the Vatican’s pontifical commission for culture and archaeology, told the Timesof London that the exclusions were “surprising, inexplicable, even suspicious.”
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