Swiss ready to help Italy with migrant influx
Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga says Switzerland is ready to help Italy in coping with the influx of migrants to its shores. So far this year, more than 63,000 migrants […]
Vatican gives official backing to exorcists
Associated Press in Vatican City The Guardian, Wednesday 2 July 2014 13.38 EDT Head of International Association of Exorcists says Vatican approval is cause for joy for those who suffer demons Exorcists now […]
Pope Francis jokes 'woman was from a rib' as he avoids vow to reform church
theguardian: by John Hooper — In his first interview with a female journalist since his election to the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.2 billion baptised Catholics, Pope Francis dodged a string of questions about whether he intended raising the status of women in his church and made a joke about women […]
Pope Francis jokes ‘woman was from a rib’ as he avoids vow to reform church
theguardian: by John Hooper — In his first interview with a female journalist since his election to the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.2 billion baptised Catholics, Pope Francis dodged a string of questions about whether he intended raising the status of women in his church and made a joke about women […]
Pope lambasts mobsters, says mafiosi "are excommunicated"
Pope Francis yesterday issued the strongest attack on organised crime groups by a pontiff in two decades, accusing them of practising the “the adoration of evil” and saying mafiosi are excommunicated. It was the first time a pope had used the word excommunication – a total cutoff from the Church […]
Pope lambasts mobsters, says mafiosi “are excommunicated”
Pope Francis yesterday issued the strongest attack on organised crime groups by a pontiff in two decades, accusing them of practising the “the adoration of evil” and saying mafiosi are excommunicated. It was the first time a pope had used the word excommunication – a total cutoff from the Church […]
Muslims, Jews, Christians to pray together at the Vatican
The Express Tribune: VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis hopes an unprecedented meeting of the Israeli and Palestinian presidents at the Vatican on Sunday can help end “eternal negotiations” and lead to peace […]
Vatican tells UN committee 848 priests defrocked in past decade
In a second day of grilling by the UN, the Holy See released statistics on how many priests have been defrocked and disciplined over sex abuse in the past decade. Toronto Star, May 7, 2014 FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES Vatican envoy Silvano Tomasi, right, delivers a statement alongside Vatican […]
Italian ship delivers 1,200 migrants to Sicily as officials sound alarm over jump in arrivals
MILAN – An Italian ship brought nearly 1,200 migrants to the Sicilian port of Augusta as Italian officials sounded the alarm over the rising tide of migrants trying to enter Europe. Navy Commander Aldo Dolfino told Sky TG24 on Friday that migrants had been evacuated from eight life rafts and […]
Europe’s African Refugee Crisis: Is the Boat Really Full?
Since Italy began rescuing Africans from the Mediterranean after the last major tragedy in October, the number of refugees coming to Europe has risen dramatically. Fears of economic immigrants could […]
The Unifier of Electromagnetic and Weak Nuclear Force: New Video on Abdus Salam in Italian:
Abdus Salam. Unificazione elettromagnetismo e forza nucleare debole. watch in Youtube
Italy rescues 4,000 immigrants in the past 48 hours
AFP , Wednesday 9 Apr 2014 AHRAMONLINE Migrants stand on a boat as two Italian navy dinghies and a ship approach to give assistance, in the waters off Capo Passero, Sicily, Thursday, March 27, 2014 (Photo: AP) Italy has rescued about 4,000 immigrants trying to cross the Mediterranean by boats […]
Rome Days away from Bankruptcy
Source: Russia Today The Italian capital may go bankrupt within a few days, says the Mayor, as the government cannot agree on how to fill the city’s $1.17 billion budget […]
Venice looks set to welcome Museum of Islamic Art
Venice looks set to welcome a new Museum of Islamic Art in the heart of the tourist getaway. By Lucia Guarano | Special to Al Arabiya News Venice looks […]
The Bloody History Of Saint Valentine: The Martyred Roman Priest Who Officiated Marriages
The real history of Valentine’s Day is not comprised of roses, chocolates and pretty cards. Instead, crime, imprisonment and execution are at the genesis of our modern day love fest, dating back to the man whose martyrdom may have inspired the holiday. There were reportedly three early Christian saints named […]
Letta moots Islamic Museum on Venice Grand Canal
Source: Anti-immigrant Northern League slams project (By Stefania Fumo) (ANSA) – Venice, February 3 – Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni wants to put his city on the map as a site of internationally weighty institutions, and a possible Islamic Museum plus study center is one of them. On Monday, the mayor […]
Nun Gives Birth, Says She Had No Idea She Was Pregnant And then, naturally, names the baby after Pope Francis
By Samantha Grossman @sam_grossmanJan. 19, 2014 Fans of Discovery Health’s “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” will love this: a Salvadoran nun gave birth in Italy this week, claiming she […]
Pope Francis calls for big changes in Roman Catholic Church
Source: CNN “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security,” the Pope said Tuesday in a major new address. “I do not want […]
Imam converts to Christianity, father holds knife to him and threatens to kill him, builds gravestone for him in Muslim cemetery
Source: Jihad Watch Mario Joseph was born in an ordinary Muslim Indian family. His father prepared him—the third among six brothers—as a spiritual leader: thus, aged 10, Mario entered a Koranic school, and when he returned from it at the age of 18, he became an Imam-khatib in a local […]
Pope Francis: his life is in danger from ?
Source: The Independent via Wasim Sr: Pope Francis’s life is in danger from ‘ndrangheta, Italy’s most feared crime group, a leading anti-mafia judge has claimed. Nicola Gratteri, a magistrate in the southern city of Reggio Calabria, near ‘ndrangheta’s heartland, has said the Pontiff’s crackdown on financial corruption in the Vatican, […]