ROME -- Sept.

 LIMA -- Farmer, activist and land-rights-defender, Maxima Acuña and her partner were severely hurt in an attack by thugs allegedly hired by the mining company they are fighting against, activist s

 ASSISI -- Pope Francis climaxed the day of prayer for peace by having lunch with six-year-old Syrian war refugee Maria in this Umbrian hillside to

 TRENTO -- The council of the nothern Italian commune of Torbole is considering working together with the US-Army to rec

 ROME -- Two Italians have been kidnapped in the south-eastern city of Ghat in Libya by masked gunmen who blocked their car and forced them into a four-by-four vehicle, police sources said Tuesday.

 ROME -- Qatar’s candidate for the position of Director-General of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, tactically launched his candidature in the Th

 VATICAN CITY -- The new British ambassador to the Holy See, Mrs Sally Jane Axworthy MBE, had an audience with Pope Francis Monday and presented her credentials, the Vatican said.

 ROME -- The joint military manoeuvres between the Russian and Chinese navies, armies and air forces have kicked off.

 ROME -- The Italian government is sending a contingent of 100 doctors to the Libyan city of Misurata to work in a hospital that will be built there, with some already in the process of arriving, s

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis declared during his Wednesday morning mass that killing in the name of God is “Satanic,” and that the French Priest Father Jacques Hamel, murdered by Isis in Rouen, sh

 ROME – The environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth has called for the International Fund for International Development (IFAD) to be abolished because of the UN agency’s financing of a la

 RAS AL-KHAIMAH, UAE -- As France is reeling from a succession of deadly Jihadi attacks which culminated with the July 14 car

 ROME -- Gerardo Biancofiore, 

 TREVISO -- Six Italians have died in a plane crash in Macedonia, aboard a flight that had departed from Treviso’s Aviation Club with the destination of Pristina the capital city of Kosovo, authori

 BARI -- Two Ukrainian people smugglers have been arrested Monday after having been detained in a sailing boat holding 50 migrants by the Italian Finance Guard law enforcement agency off the Salent

 ROME -- The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s latest publication is still sparking controversy after the world noticed their cartoons about the recent earthquake in central Italy and critici

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has just announced, on World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, that we must “listen to the cries of the

Melbourne — Australian Macedonians are gearing up to celebrate 25 years of independence of the Republic of Macedonia from Yugoslav

LAMPEDUSA -- With the arrival of September, there has been a new influx of migrants to the South of Italy from Libya, Egypt and other North-African countries, totalling around 13,000 people over th

 ROME -- Fifty NGOs working in Venezuela have appealed to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and other U.N.