VATICAN CITY- One hundred days after Pope Francis assumed the papacy “We Are Church,” a liberal Catholic opposition movement urged the Argentinian pontiff to usher in reforms to decentralize church

  ROME – The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, has broken up an “immoral earnings” ring  involving a number of staff at the UN agency, FAO sources said.

ROME– Turkmenistan, Sao Tome, Niger and Dominican Republic may deserve FAO honours for meeting UN development goals but all are in hefty arrears in paying dues to the UN agency, FAO sources say.

PATTAYA, Thailand -- Anyone meeting the remarkable Juergen (Gio) Lusuardi will not quickly forget, especially when they discover how many benefit from his energy building the Take Care Kids charity

ROME – Two countries that helped enable the wafer-thin majority electing FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva had not paid their dues and were technically ineligible to vote, FAO sources say

ROME–Latin American diplomats and the companion of former Italy prime minister, Lamberto Dini's daughter Paola are among new staff in FAO chief Jose Graziano da Silva's office, FAO sources say.

ROME-Italy must follow the USA and create more private universities to prevent the Italian youth workforce becoming "marginalised," American University of Rome President Richard Hodges says.

ROME – Saad Alotaibi, considered a Saudi Royal family unofficial emissary at the FAO, has left his job as Assistant Director General for the mideast following the murky death of a Japanese staffer

ROME–FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva wants a sharp spending increase in the 2014-2015 budget -- the agency denies the hike is intended to facilitate his re-election.

ROME-- Recently the Corriere della Sera carried two full pages and an editorial debating whether Britain will leave the EU -For many years this was unthinkable.

 LILONGE, Malawi- My trip to Mwaya Beach took nine hours on a perilously crowded bus across narrow bridges spanning crocodile-peppered waters - of the 100 in the vehicle I was the only white person

 VENICE-A cocktail at Ca’ Giustinian, dinner with Massimiliano Gioni and Cecilia Alemani and riding a vaporetto with Luigi Ontani were highlights of the 55^thVenice Biennale preview.

 BRUSSELS-Britain will ask the European Council to end Italy's discrimination against UK lecturers in universities if bilateral talks fail, Europe Minister David Lidington told MP Mark Lazarowicz.