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Argentinian Cardinal Leonardo Sandri will substitute Pope Francis in the celebration of Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter’s Square due to the pontiff’s ill health, the Vatican has announced.

Pope Francis has been taken by ambulance to a hospital in Rome on Wednesday after suffering from alleged respiratory issues. 

France´s highest court ruled against extraditing 10 far-left militants who were convicted of attacks in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.

Parents and students from a Florida charter school have been invited to Florence, Italy to see the Statue of David, after their principle was fired amid complaints of pornographic lessons.

A Tunisian man in Milan was stabbed after being attacked by other North Africans who noticed he was drinking a beer during of Ramadan. 

A former general has called on the EU to act militarily in Africa, blaming PMC Wagner Group for the current wave of illegal immigrants. 

The Catholic Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) has reiterated its opposition to surrogacy, likening the practice to renting a woman’s womb while treating the children born of surrogacy as objects.

Amitabh Kant, India’s negotiator at the G20 summit, said on Wednesday that the world is too preoccupied with Russia’s war in Ukraine, and should “move on” to deal with issues like global poverty.

Wagner allegedly has “cells” within Europe and the bounty comes as the head of the private military group mocked the minister.

“We have indications [Wagner] are very active and in contact with gangs of traffickers and militiamen… smuggling migrants.”

The European Parliament has passed a resolution that will see “insane” green building rules forced onto individual EU member states.

Far-left anarchists attacked political offices over the weekend, demanding the release of convicted anarchist terrorist Alfredo Cospito. 

Govt figures reveal the number of illegals coming to Italy has nearly tripled this year compared to the same period in 2022.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on people smugglers pushing illegal migration, promising prison terms of up to 30 years.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will ask his Italian counterpart to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital, prompting immediate backing from Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

Alessandro Cattaneo, a member of the Italian parliament for the centre-right Forza Italia, has warned parts of Milan are “out of control” following a mass stabbing by a Moroccan migrant.

A North African migrant was arrested by Milan’s central railway station this week after committing five robberies and stabbing six people, seriously injuring two of them.

Pope Francis has called out the human traffickers behind a recent shipwreck in southern Italy that resulted in the deaths of scores of migrants.

An Italian intelligence report released this week says migrant “taxi” ship NGOs help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.

Italian prosecutors have revealed that smugglers charged as much as 8,000 euros each for a voyage that led to the deaths of dozens of people.

The Vatican risks falling into isolation and irrelevance, warns a veteran Italian journalist Tuesday, as world leaders are finding Pope Francis easier and easier to ignore.

An NGO migrant “taxi” ship has been fined 10,000 euros and placed into administrative detention for 20 days for violating a security decree enacted by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

A vessel carrying over 100 migrants shipwrecked off the coast off the southern Italian region of Calabria Sunday morning leaving at least 43 dead and scores missing.

ROME (AP) – The Italian coast guard and firefighters have recovered more than 30 bodies after a wooden migrant boat broke apart in rough seas Sunday near the southern coast of Italy´s mainland, authorities reported.

A 23-year-old Egyptian migrant was arrested in eastern Italy after robbing a 12-year-old boy at gunpoint, stealing his jacket before fleeing the scene.

A march of “anti-fascist” protesters allegedly saw participants threaten PM Giorgia Meloni and praise a massacre of Italian civilians.

73 people are missing and presumed dead after people smugglers put them on an inflatable boat that sank off the coast of Libya. 

Six police officers were wounded as a result of clashes with far-left anarchist extremists over the weekend. 

Violence erupted outside a Milan asylum office in the early morning hours of Monday as around 600 migrants gathered, with riot police being forced to act to maintain order. The group of 600 migrants gathered along the Via Cagni ahead of

The government of Milan has announced it will be clearing an area long squatted by illegal African migrants – in order to transform the site into a new mosque and Islamic centre.

An Italian anarchist currently on hunger strike allegedly praised terrorist actions in prison letters to supporters as far-left extremists have carried out several violent attacks in support of him.

Turkey for a second day on Friday railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul.

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

Far-left anarchists are accused attacking police in Milan and Rome in revenge for an extremist engaged in a hunger strike. 

Populist Matteo Salvini’s League has clashed with other members of the right-wing ruling Italian government under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after trying to propose amendments to further restrict immigration into the country. The League came into conflict with Meloni’s Brothers

Italian PM Georgia Meloni held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government, signing an gas dea worthl $8 billion.