MALMÖ -- Pope Francis has arrived in Sweden to participate in the ceremony of commemoration for the 500-year-anniversary of the Lutheran reform.
En route to Sweden, the head of the Roman Catholic Church told journalists, “This trip is important because it is an ecclesiastical trip, within the field of ecumenicalism. Your work will really help people to understand properly what this trip is about -- thank you.”
ROME -- The capital’s schools have been closed and two churches in the historic centre have been deemed unsafe by firefighters Monday, after carrying out inspections to them as a consequence of the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that hit central Italy.
Sunday morning’s 6.5 quake -- the strongest to hit Italy since the 1980 Naples quake killing thousands -- was felt even in the Italian capital, where it sparked fear and caused people to descend onto the streets of the Eternal City.
NORCIA -- The strongest earthquake tremor to hit the Bel Paese since 1980, measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, rippled through central Italy Sunday at 7:45 a.m., causing damage in Umbrian villages and destroying a 9th century basilica in the town of Umbria, seismologists and civil defence workers said. Norcia, a medieval cultural jewel in the Umbrian hills 30 km from Spoleto, seemed like a ghost town Sunday night after police closed the centre that was declared abn off-limits 'red zone' and many inhabitants were evacuated to hotels at Lake Trasimene or on the Adriatic coast.
ROME – Opening night arrived Friday for the ‘Teatro de Loto’ company to premier their interpretation of the dark tragedy ‘Re Lear’ (King Lear) in Teatro dell’Orologio of the Eternal City.
ROME -- Famous actor Roberto Benigni had his driving licence taken from him on his 64th birthday Thursday when he overtook on the wrong side of the road coming up to a set of traffic lights at Piazza Thorvaldsen, in front of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Italian capital.
The Italian national treasure and Oscar winner has to study once again, not Dante’s Divina Commedia, but instead a driving and road safety manual after going against Article 148 of the highway code.
BUDAPEST -- Hungary, the country that has constructed a wall between itself and Serbia, and announced a referendum to say ‘no’ to the distribution of migrants in the European Union, has “verbally attacked” Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi for “not complying with EU rules,” Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
GENOA -- A month following Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi’s announcement of the relaunch of the ‘Bridge over the Strait (of Sicily)’ project, numerous key figures in the very same project have been arrested under the national investigation into corruption and extortion within various Italian construction works, judicial sources said.
NAPLES -- Famous American photographer Steve McCurry has come to Naples for an exceptional event entitled “Senza confini” (Without Borders), held at PAN – Palace of Arts.
From Oct. 28 to Feb. 2, 2017, the world-renowned photojournalist native to Philadelphia will exhibit his show in the Parthenope city.
The man who has been touching the world with breath-taking images since the 70s will be in the Naples spotlight for the last of his three appointments held in Italy this year. The show will include some of his most famous works and some recent inedited photographs.
MACERATA -- About 100 more tremors were felt throughout the second night of quakes -- the strongest during the early hours of Friday morning, by the 4,000 people sleeping in temporary shelters due to the latest earthquake to hit the Marche region in central Italy, civil protection workers said.
