ROME – A group of three men of Albanian origin escaped from the maximum security prison of Rebibbia on Wednesday night following the earthquake, lowering themselves down from the height of a watch

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis welcomed Thursday delegates from the Santa Marta Group, an organization working against human trafficking, to the Apostolic Palace in the Holy See, the Vatican said.

 ROME -- The Roman Catholic Church elucidated its latest most open stance on cremation, saying does not prohibit this practice as long as certain rules and conditions are respected, religious sourc

 ROME -- Japanese ambassador to Italy H.E.

  ROME -- Catia Pellegrino, the oft-deemed “heroic” naval captain who works daily to save thousands of migrant lives from the depths of the Mediterranean,

 ROME -- The UK premier Theresa May and her Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, have urged their Italian counterparts Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentilon

 ROME - Organisers of a project to reconstitute ancient works of art destroyed by Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria hope their pioneering effort

 ROME – Chaos broke out on the train service from Roma-Lido to Tor di Valle as a passenger smashed the glass of the cabin and injured the driver, s

  ROME – The Eternal City saw the first civil union between a policeman in uniform and his partner on Sunday, Il Messaggero reports.

 ROME –  Ushered into the John Cabot University auditorium, finding my seat amongst students, locals and theatre-lovers alike, I had no idea what to expect, having never watche

 ROME -- Director, screenwriter and author Francesco Patierno presents the heart-wrenching documentary Napoli’44 at the Festa del Cinema of Rome this week.

 ROME – Giacomo Bruni, the partisan who’s nom de guerre was ‘Arturo’who transported the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci t

 ROME -- Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti was quoted as saying Wednesday that Italy’s soldiers near the Iraqi city of Mosul will not come into direct confrontation with ISIS groups, insisting that

 ROME – It would appear that Antonio Conte has settled into life in England rather well.

 ROME -- The Italian ‘Slow Food’ organization reacted Tuesday to the Food and Agriculture Organization's newly-released report “The State of Food and Agriculture 2016,” praising its consideration o

 ROME -- Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano has confirmed that the trafficking of ancient art smuggled by ISIS into the West, is being exchanged for arms and being used to finance ISIS, with

ROME -- In a spare room at the University of California Rome Study Centre, election day had arrived early last Monday.

 ROME -- A troop of 140 Italian soldiers will be sent to the Latvian border with Russia under a NATO mission, yet the decision has been met with a barrage of criticism, Il Messaggero reported.

 ROME -- A so-called “black pope” -- Arturo Sosa Abascal, aged 67, from Venezuela -- has been elected as the new head of the Jesuits, following four days of meetings and consultations between the 2

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis surprises us all by opening the most private chambers of his summer residence in Castelgandolfo to the public, a move

 VATICAN CITY – Numerous cardinals living in the same apartment building as the new MacDonald’s restaurant near the St Anne's gate of Pope Francis' tiny city state are up in arms over the inaugurat