VATICAN CITY – The former head of the Vatican Bank faces an eight-year prison sentence after being found guilty of embezzlement, money laundering and self-launde

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is set to resume foreign travel for the first time since the pandemic hit, with a trip to war-torn Iraq in March 2021, Vatican sources said.

 ROME – Young Italians frustrated by Covid curfews and closures are using the social media ‘grapevine’ to arrange outdoo

 VATICAN CITY – The staff of his tiny city-state must be wondering what they did to get on the wrong side of Pope Francis this year.

 ROME – Intense negotiations between the government of South Sudan (RTGoNU) and the opposition movements gathered in SSOMA have taken place in Rome with the media

 ROME – Following many meetings this year between Algeria and Italy, and despite current pandemic restrictions, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, was paying a working visit to Alg

 ROME – A poster depicting Jozsef Szájer, an MEP from Hungary’s ruling party, who quit after being caught attending a “gay sex party,” appeared Friday morning in

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has copped criticism from all corners for his failure to mention the nearly 1,000 deaths in last night's address to the nation outlining the latest gov

  VATICAN CTIY – Inclusion was front and centre of Pope Francis' mind, who indicated his closeness with the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic, particular

 ROME – Palazzo Chigi has strongly denied allegations published on scandal site ‘Dagospia’ claiming Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his girlfriend broke anti-Co

VACTICAN CITY – The ‘invisible enemy’ continues to deal a blow to religious ceremonies, this time forcing the cancellation of a traditional public event in Rome’s historic centre, Vatican sources s

 ROME – Entire business sectors risk ‘pulverisation’ without urgent Covid relief funds, even small businesses that have

 ROME – The head of Rome’s Municipal police (Vigili Urbani) has resigned in the face of an investigative report by RAI's 'Report' programme into corruption, links

 ROME – A serious episode of censorship has been carried out by Italian national public broadcaster RAI television against Senator Nicola Morra, President of the Anti-Mafia Commiss

 ROME – Almost four years after his body was found in a ditch by the side of a Cairo highway, two witnesses have revealed they saw Egyptian security agents kidnap

 ROME – The old tradition of asking tourists to toss a coin for luck in the Trevi Fountain has evidently been refined by a branch of the Banco di Sardegna bank nex

 ROME – Italian cult actress and screenwriter Daria Nicolodi has died at the age of 70, her daughter Asia Argento announced in an Instagram post.

 ROME – Bad timing hit the eagerly awaited “Torlonia Marbles: Collecting Masterpieces” exhibition, forced to close due t

 VATICAN CITY – The former butler of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted in the first “Vatileaks” case, has died aged 54, Vatican offici

 ROME – War surgeon Gino Strada has been recruited as an external consultant to help the southern region of Calabria in its battle against COVID-19.

 ROME – Drug counterfeiting could be the next pandemic challenge once a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 begins production and distribution, a senior foreign ministry official warned on

 ROME – For the fist time in its 700-year history, Sapienza University of Rome has appointed a female rector.

 ROME – Speaking at an online press conference reserved for correspondents of the foreign press in Italy, and moderated by Romanian journalist

 ROME – Speaking at an online press conference reserved for correspondents of the foreign press in Italy, and moderated by Romanian journalist