ROME - The Vatican and the Republic of Azerbaijan have renewed an agreement on the restoration and enhancement of the Catacombs of Comodilla, in Garbatella.

  ROME - Italy’s Democratic Party (PD) has been left in turmoil after the sudden announcement that the Secretary, Nicola Zingaretti has resigned.

  ROME - The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, has appointed Lamberto Giannini as the new Chief of Police - Director Gen

  ROME - Pope Francis’ 33th international visit began on Friday when at 7:35 a.m. he departed Fiumicino airport for Iraq.

  ROME - Italy has blocked the shipment of 250,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine to Australia, according to diplomatic sources, making use of the new rules introduced by the EU to b

ROME – The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to publish the ‘Women Up’ programme online, a six-year long programme celebrating women in ar

  ROME - After the sacking on Domenico Arcuri as Commissioner for the fight against Covid-19, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has announced Francesco Paolo Figliuolo as the new man in charge of

  ROME - The latest Prime Ministerial coronavirus decree in Italy was marked by huge variation between the situation and resulting regulations of the different regions, and even within the regions

 ROME - The Sapienza University of Rome currently has a very specific duty to fulfill, given that the hope of any future certainty is swiftly being thwarted by the ongoing pandemic.

  ROME – Having arrived in the Eternal City early to enjoy the sights before the shooting of her new film, Lady Gaga perhaps had her Roman holiday ruined only one day in, when she found out about t

ROME -- Scientists from Italy and Switzerland have found fossilised footprints belonging to a prehistoric reptile resembling a giant crocodile that lived in what are now the western Alps some 250 m

ROME — Magistrates in Rome have ordered the seizure of property worth €70 million (£60 million) from eight middlemen suspected of using high level contacts to exploit Italy’s desperate need for fac

  ROME - Paul Sellers, the fun-loving former head of the British Council in Italy, has resigned from the post after being accused of sexual harassment.

  ROME - The State funeral for the late Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, and his Carabiniere police escort Vito Iacovacci was held Thursday at Santa Maria deg

  ROME - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has released his list of the 39 undersecretaries for his new government, with the 5 Star Movement (M5S) getting 11 of the roles, the League nine, six fo

  VATICAN CITY - The Holy See announced on Wednesday the nomination by Pope Francis of his new personal doctor, Professor Roberto Bernabei. 

  ROME - The former Secretary of the Council of Ministers, Antonio Catricalà, was on Wednesday found dead in his apartment, suspected of suicide.

  Two percent of travellers from England test positive, according to Il messaggero.

  ROME - Giancarlo Giorgetti, the Minister for Economic Development, will on Thursday meet with the President of Farmindustria, Massimo Scaccabarozzi, with the aim of discussing how Italy can speed

  ROME - Pope Francis has recently paid a visit to Edith Bruck, a poet and survivor of the Shoah atrocities, at her house in Rome.

ROME - Thanks to the help of Sant’Egidio, hundreds of street-people have been granted citizenship income, allowing them to be able to “rent a room and sometimes find a job,” according to il Fatto Q

 VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is taking a hard stance on employees who refuse the coronavirus vaccine.

  ROME - The 5 Star Movement (M5S) are facing a possible schism with 15 M5S Senators looking likely to be expelled from the party on Thursday after voting against Italian Prime Minister Mario Dragh