ROME - The PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have sent a letter to the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, and to Sabrina Alfonsi, president of the municipality of Trastevere, Rome, ask

  ROME - the government has given the 'go-ahead' to allowing disco-goers to return to the dance floor.

  ROME - After the Vatican’s controversial note to the Italian government on Tuesday requesting modifications to the proposed new law

  ROME - As many as 20 foreign lecturers working in Italy are to be paid arrears on unpaid wages totalling 5 million euros as the first step by universities to compensate for the historic poor trea

  VATICAN CITY - In an unprecedented move, the Holy See has lodged a formal diplomatic protest against new laws proposed

ROME - Pope Francis has been thanked for “giving hope” after meeting a group of inmates from the maximum security Rebibbia prison. 

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that famine – already present in four countries – could become a reality for millions of people around the world, without urgent funding

  ROME - The Italian government have failed to act on the year given to them by the Constitutional Court to provide a ne

  ROME - With the number of coronavirus cases in Britain once again growing exponentially, Italy have imposed a five day quarantine period on all Brits coming into the country, even the vaccinated,

  VATICAN CITY – The President of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, was on Friday received by Pope Francis in a private audience in the Apostolic Palace.

 ROME - The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) has published a report showing that poverty in Italy has increased in the last year, with 5.6 million Italians currently classed as livi

  ROME - The Roman street artist Laika has returned to the capital with a new poster on via Salaria, put up on Wednesday morning near the entrance to the Egyptian embassy, entitled "Don't Visit Egy

 ROME - The Indian Supreme Court has closed the case against Italian Marines, Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, after Italy paid the country a 1.1 million euros (100 million rupees) ex gra

  ROME - The community of Sant'Egidio and Cardinal Pietro Parolin were holding a prayer vigil Tuesday evening to mark World Refugee Day on June 20, commemorating the 43,000 people who have died on

  ROME - On Sunday June 6, in the evocative setting of the Antico Caffè Greco, for centuries a point of reference for cu

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has rejected Cardinal Reinhard Marx's resignation letter, saying that "Taking up the crisis, personally and communally, is the only fruitful path.”

  ROME - After 37 years in the Italian Secret Services, Marco Mancini, 60, will be retiring in July - a retirement perhaps brought forward by the controversy surrounding his meeting with former Pri

  ROME - Almost any other businessman would have sold a company that had last made a profit in 2010, but not Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone. 

  ROME - Four American Academy in Rome (AAR) Fellows, responding to the restrictions and limits of the Covid-19 era, are producing sculptures that will be install

  ROME - Giovanni Brusca, the mafia boss turned informant, has been released from prison after 25 years, causing great u

  ROME - On Wednesday, all of the most important Italian politicians and leaders gathered on the steps of the Vittoriano monument in Rome to celebrate the

  ROME - On his first official visit to Italy since he took office in March, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah met with Italian PM Mario Draghi and spoke at an Italy-Libya business forum at

  ROME - The Centre for Global Development has published a report on the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) measuring and comparing the performance of 49 countries and global agenci