VATICAN CITY – U.S President Donald Trump had a colourful audience with Pope Francis Wednesday that Trump dubbed "a great honour" but it was unclear if progress was made in reconciling their views

ROME – The FAO’s hallowed “Commissary” tax free store for employees is to close as part of budget cuts requested by Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.

 ROME-- Representatives from the FAO and WFP outlined the famine crisis gripping parts of Africa and Asia, which is considered 'one of the largest food crises in 70 years,' according to the press p

 ROME-- Mounting concern after reports of Libyan coastguards, trained and led by the Italian interior ministry, intimidating migrant-packed NGO vessels off the coast of Tripoli.

ROME- Ambassadors, politicians and writers descended on the MAXXI Museum of 21^st Century Arts in Rome to celebrate the 69^th anniversary of the independence of the State of Isr

 LIMA -- Former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia has resigned from her post as head of the Geneva liason office of the FAO, saying that her judicial woes in her homeland prevent her taking up the

ROME -- Callista Gingrich, wife of congressman about town Newt Gingrich is expected to be the next American ambassador to the Holy See despite some Catholic commentators’ concern about her husband’

 ROME -- Members of the Knights of Malta have made the de

NAPLES – Italy’s Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrived in Sannio, in the Province of Benevento, earlier Wednesday and visited two of the region’s top companies bearing Italian brands of excellence

 ROME-- Italian journalist Gabriele del Grande landed in Bologna on Monday after being released from a Turkish detention camp. 

ROME – As if defending WFP’s budget were not enough, new Executive DIrector David Beasley may order a review of security at the UN agency’s headquarters following reports that the commute to the lo

 ROME--The Mayor of Lampedusa, Giuseppina Nicolini, and the French NGO, SOS Méditeranée have been awarded the prestigious UNESCO Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for saving the lives of many refugees a

 ROME — Pope Francis’ media exposure during Easter celebrations confirmed his role as a popular and respected world leader, but this week a group of Catholic lay i

ROME – The judge in the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor for alleged criminal defamation of the FAO and four of its executives this week postponed hearing of the case until Dec. 21.

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley was having his first face to face meeting Wednesday with staff at agency headquarters, updating them on UN dignitaries he has met recently before arrivin

ROME – FAO DIrector General José Graziano da Silva asked for a “bilateral meeting” with then U.S. President Barack Obama last year, a letter to the U.S.

 ROME – Newly appointed WFP Executive Director David Beasley has engaged with his staff from day one in the job by sending staff a letter outlining his efforts to defend U.S.

ROME – As Kanayo Nwanze cleared his desk at IFAD this week, questions have been raised over the award of the dlrs 100,000 Africa Food Prize to the head of the UN agency by the African Green Revolut

 ROME -- With overbearing IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze ending his second and final term at the UN agency Friday, staff were counting the hours to the end of his reign of terror with many planning t