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Italy to fund jubilee-year celebrations
December 21, 1996
Web posted at: 4:15 p.m. EST (2115 GMT)ROME (CNN) -- Italy's center-left government on Saturday won its fifth legislative confidence vote this week, when the Italian Senate swept aside amendments blocking passage of a bill providing $2.3 million for millennium celebrations in Rome.
Rome and the Vatican are expecting an estimated 20 million people in the year 2000, proclaimed a holy year, or jubilee, by Pope John Paul II.
The opposition Northern League party objected to giving Rome special state funds for the celebrations. Italy's lower house passed the bill on Friday.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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