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For the Pilgrim on a Budget, the Vatican Has Air Charters Laurent Dard/Reuters PARIS, Aug. 27 — It already has its own postal service, its own bank and even its own Internet domain. On Monday, the Vatican inaugurated its latest venture: a low-cost charter airline to ferry thousands of Catholic pilgrims from Italy to popular religious sites around the world. |
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 The Vatican is to launch a low-cost charter flight service to transport pilgrims to holy sites worldwide. The inaugural flight on 27 August will go from Rome to Lourdes in France. A small Italian airline, Mistral, will provide the planes, with the interiors decorated with sacred inscriptions such as: "I search for your face, Lord." Other destinations could include Fatima in Portugal and Santiago di Compostela in Spain, the Holy Land, Poland and a Catholic shrine in Mexico. |
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