VATICAN CITY – Returning from Geneva on Friday, having met with the leaders of Christian Churches, Pope Francis spoke about the urgent need for European countries to provide aid through the Marshal

 ROME - Mediatrends America hosted the ‘Climate Change and Energy in South America’ conference on Friday where the Food and Agriculture Organisation presented the troubling recently-published stati

ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte confirmed Thursday that he would attend EU immigration talks on Sunday having threatened to skip the summit in Brussels, citing what he considered to be

ROME – A small square tile bearing a portrait of the Archangel Gabriel and said to be the first signed painting by Leonardo da Vinci was presented to the international press today in a move that co

ROME – As many as 523 migrants, saved in seven separate rescue missions, arrived at the port of Pozzallo, Ragusa, aboard the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti on Wednesday, officials said.

ROME – Italian, Slovenian, Croatian and Spanish police have arrested 14 people, entangled in a cross-border criminal association, devised to smuggle illegal weapons of war into Europe, officials sa

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Juan Barros, Bishop of Osorno, and two other churchmen involved in the Chilean sexual abuse scandal, Vatican officials confirmed on Monda

ROME – Spain agreed to welcome the NGO rescue ship carrying 629 migrants on Monday, officials said, as Italian anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Maltese officials fought a tense war

ROME - The third edition of the Cultural Heritage Rescue Prize was held in Palermo at Villa Niscemi. This prize dedicates itself to celebrating those who safeguar

REGGIO CALABRIA – Three days on from the death of Soumayla Sacko, the 29-year-old Malian who was shot dead on Saturday at San Calogero, police have singled out a 43-year-old suspect. 

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Nepal have agreed to invest US$68.1 million to significantly improve incomes and food security for 35,000 rural farming househo

ROME – A fundraising event took place on Tuesday at the South African Embassy in Rome to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of former president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding

ROME – A distinguished delegation of Chinese government officials, representatives from Italy, several African countries and the United Nations, participated in a workshop on Tuesday, aimed at boos

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini claimed victory on Tuesday after several European countries stood up against the proposed reforms of the Dublin Regulation at an EU justice and home affairs

ROME – The League reacted furiously on Monday to accusations from billionaire financier and philanthropist, George Soros, that the far-right Italian party may be financed by the Kremlin, political

ROME – Sant’Egidio, a Christian community spanning 70 countries worldwide, has led calls on Monday for collective European intervention to put an end to the “unacceptable” deaths of migrant childre

ROME – Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini reopened his criticism of the EU’s migration policies on Monday, demanding help from Europe to secure Italian borders and informing them that his ant

ROME – Fierce tension between Italy’s incoming M5S-League government and the European Union escalated on Friday after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker characterised Italians as laz