The Vatican, no matter how extensive its wealth and holdings may be, is not a source of money for its dioceses.
Analysts believe M23 are fighting over DRC's extensive mineral wealth, much of which is located in the North Kivu province, where Goma is the capital.
[Along with other neighbours who have seen fit to intervene in Congo over the years, Rwanda has been happy to help itself to large amounts of the country's extensive mineral wealth, as documented in a 2001 United Nations report] As a number of people (myself included) warned at the time, the peace deal as implemented was a marriage of convenience destined for a nasty divorce.
The range has considerable mineral wealth; extensive iron-ore deposits were mined by the Liberian American-Swedish Minerals Company (Lamco) after 1963 and exported via the 168-mile (270-km) company railroad to the port of Buchanan.
He has all the power that comes from great personal wealth, extensive media and publishing interests and control over commercial television, as well as influence on state-owned broadcasting.
The fall of Acre to the Muslims in 1291 removed much of the Templars' reason for being, and their great wealth, extensive landholdings in Europe, and power inspired resentment toward them.
Many ministers in the Russian government have secondary roles in business and extensive property and wealth that is typically tolerated unless they fall from favor for another reason, analysts of Russian politics say.
Among the many European leaders felled by the Continent's debt crisis, Berlusconi will perhaps have the most sustained claim on the spotlight, because of his wealth, extensive media holdings, continuing criminal trials and sheer flamboyant Berlusconi-ness.
The images chronicle the Western world's spiraling obsession with consumption and celebrity, part of her extensive project "Generation Wealth".
