Anewly married couple on Wednesday appealed against the Vatican Bank for sacking them Tuesday after it found out they had got married under new rules forbidding married couples working together. Their lawyer Laura Sgrò issued a statement saying: "the undersigned defence attorney has challenged and contested the act of immediate dismissal notified by the IOR to my clients, considering it null, illegitimate and seriously damaging to fundamental rights". The Vatican Bank's name is the Institute for Religious Works, IOR in Italian. The IOR had previously said one out of of the newly married couple, the bride or the groom, would have to resign in the event of a wedding by staff members. Source: Ansa News Agency