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The Holiday Season ends in St. Peter’s Square: So Long to the Nativity Scene and Christmas tree

The operations to dismantle the Nativity Scene and remove the Christmas tree set up in St. Peter’s Square for Christmas have been completed. As announced, starting on Monday, January 12, after the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, the dismantling and relocation activities began. These were carried out by staff from the Directorate of Infrastructure and Services of the Governorate, together with the organizers of the Nativity.

Future Plans for the Vatican Pharmacy: an interview with the Director on the 2026 Program

Between Mission and Innovation

The integration of cash management with digital payments, the automation of the Vatican Pharmacy’s warehouse, and the full development of credit and remote sales operations to ensure greater accuracy, transparency, and control. These are the projects that the Vatican Pharmacy will implement over the course of 2026. They are discussed in this interview with www.vaticanstate.va by Br. Thomas Binish Mulackal of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God (Fatebenefratelli), Director of the Vatican Pharmacy.

Interview with Massimo Toschi on the agreement with the Hera Group for integrated waste management

For energy recovery

Operational activities involving the collection, recovery, transport, treatment, and disposal of municipal and special waste: this is what the agreement signed last December 12 between the Governorate of the Vatican City State and the Hera Group provides for, through its subsidiary Herambiente S.p.A., a company that specializes in waste treatment and recovery. Massimo Toschi, Deputy Director of the Services Sector of the Directorate of Infrastructure and Services of the Governorate, discusses the agreement in this interview with www.vaticanstate.va.

The President Honors 20 Years of Ohio, USA Patronage

On December 5th, Sr. Raffaella Petrini, FSE visited the Ohio Chapter of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums in Cleveland, Ohio. At the gala dinner with over 250 persons, the President thanked the Ohio Patrons for their twenty years of selfless generosity in their dedication to restoration of various artistic works of the Vatican Museums.

Interview with Engineer Luigi Calcagni, Head of the Internet Service Provider Service of the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems

The new app for learning about the Governatorate

It is aimed at everyone interested in following the life and institutional activities of the State of Vatican City through an official, direct and reliable channel of information. This is the new app launched last January 3 to make the contents of the institutional website www.vaticanstate.va more accessible on mobile devices. Engineer Luigi Calcagni, Head of the Internet Service Provider Service of the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems, explains this in an interview with www.vaticanstate.va.