Al-Haj Muhammad Abdul Hadi Italo Chiussi (1919-1973)
In the 14 December 2018 issue of Al Hakam, Abdul Hadi (Italo) Chiussi was mentioned who was formerly an Italian Esperantist and later translated the Quran into the Esperanto […]
Europe’s far right seems determined to hijack Christianity in its bid for power
Today Catholic fundamentalism is fully mixed with anti-Muslim feeling, disguised antisemitism, racism and a narrow anti-EU nationalism Andrea Mammone The Independent Voices An 800-year-old monastery in Italy’s Apennine mountains has become the latest battleground in a bitter war of ideas. The imposing buildings of Trisulti to the east of Rome […]
The Dangerous New Face of Salvini’s Italy
Matteo Salvini Has Emboldened Fascists in Italy A .38-Caliber Rosary The Dangerous New Face of Salvini’s Italy Shots fired at foreigners, assaults on minorities, neo-fascist marches: Italy’s extreme right wing […]
With support from Steve Bannon, a medieval monastery could become a populist training ground
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan December 25 COLLEPARDO, Italy — Inside the stone walls of the Trisulti monastery, for more than eight centuries, monks have lived in quiet seclusion, praying, […]
We need a revival of humanism
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Gerson A tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at the Uffizi that […]
Italian priests vow to open church doors to evictees from immigration centres
‘Salvini decree’ threatens to make thousands not eligible for refugee status homeless Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo @lorenzo_tondo Mon 10 Dec 2018 Demonstrators in Rome protest against the ‘Salvini decree’ in […]
Global Catholic nuns urge reporting of sex abuse to police
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — The Catholic Church’s global organization of nuns has denounced the “culture of silence and secrecy” surrounding sexual abuse in the church […]
Italy’s bishops respond to long-ignored clergy sex abuse
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops are declaring a new era of transparency and truth about clergy sex abuse, as awareness of the […]
Remains at Vatican property probed for links to 35-year-old mystery
Source: CNN By Bianca Britton and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN A demonstrator holds a poster of Emanuela Orlandi reading “Missing” during Pope Benedict XVI’s Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter’s […]
Italy’s League blocks Muslims from buying and converting chapel
Oct 28, 2018 Italian Northern League leader Matteo Salvini speaks during a political rally in Milan, Italy February 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (reuters_tickers) ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s far-right League party […]
Salvini, Macron clash after France caught migrant dumping
By AFP – Oct 16,2018 – JORDAN TIMES French President Emmanuel Macron attends a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Elysee Palace in Paris on […]
‘An employer? No, we have a master’: the Sikhs secretly exploited in Italy
Men harvest chicory in a field in Sezze, in the Italian province of Latina. Sikh workers have to call the landlord ‘Master’. Photograph: Marco Valle After years of arduous, badly […]
Tensions between Italy and France as ministers meet on immigration
AFP news@thelocal.it @thelocalitaly 9 October 2018 Matteo Salvini (L) meets Edouard Philippe in Lyon. Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe urged Italian leader Matteo Salvini on Monday to […]
Chilean president to meet Pope amid Catholic Church abuse crisis
Source: Reuters By Aislinn Laing, Natalia A. Ramos Miranda (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera will meet Pope Francis in Rome later this month during a tour of Europe, as the […]
An Italian Mayor Who Gained Global Support for Helping Migrants Has Been Arrested
By ASSOCIATED PRESS (MILAN) — The mayor of a small town in southern Italy that became a model for immigrant integration was placed under house arrest Tuesday for allegedly aiding […]
In Private Letters, Benedict Rebukes Critics of Pope Francis
Source: The New York Times By Jason Horowitz ROME — The remarkable letter last month calling on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly shielding an abusive American cardinal also served […]
A Nuclear Bomb Inside the Vatican
Source: The New York Times By Jennifer Finney Boylan “What do you think?” I asked my wife, as I looked in the mirror. We were on our way to the Vatican. […]
The Medici touch: exhibition shows how Florence fell for Islamic art
Six centuries of city’s connection to Muslim world explored in rare Uffizi and Bargello collaboration HANNAH MCGIVERN 26th June 2018 This Indo-Persian shield was admired for its master craftsmanship […]
Pope pays tribute in Sicily to priest slain by Mafia
Source: Associated Press By TRISHA THOMAS and FRANCES D’EMILIO PALERMO, Sicily (AP) — Pope Francis appealed to Mafiosi to renounce their quests for power and money as he visited Sicily […]
Pope calls world’s bishops to meeting on sexual abuse of children
Source: The New York Times By Jason Horowitz and Laurie Goodstein VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis summoned bishops from around the world to Rome for an unprecedented meeting focused on protecting minors. The […]
