Plans to offer Airbnb customers the chance to take part in gladiator-style battles in Rome’s Colosseum have been decried as ...

A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the "fir tree-icide" of cutting down a 200-year-old red pine to decorate St. Peter's Square for ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday called on the diocese of Rome to respond to a growing housing crisis in the Eternal City, ...

Rome, in Italian territory near the border with the Vatican City, 15 October 2008. (Photo by CLAUDIO PERI/EPA/MaxPPP) Public debate over certain papal teachings remains prohibited within the ...

By the end of this tour, you’ll have gained detailed insight into the Vatican's rich history and gotten to know this iconic ultimate Rome venue before most people have even had their morning coffee.

Rome's Catholic, Muslim and Jewish leaders have ... performs in the Italian capital on Sunday a stone's throw away from Vatican City. The lapsed-Catholic diva's latest irreverent performance ...

and they worry that the crime will only increase as more people travel to Rome for the Vatican Jubilee – an event in the Catholic Church that will bring pilgrims to the city. Claudio Pica is the ...

In its most critical note, it called for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office ... in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, in Rome, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Credit: AP/Alessandra ...

None. "You can't film at the Vatican, ever," says Straughan. "We had to come up with alternatives." Most of those alternatives were in fact in Rome, which is packed with marble-encrusted buildings ...

In its most critical note, it called for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. It said the office’s slow processing of cases ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic Church needs to unify policies on compensating victims of sexual abuse by clergy, the Vatican's child protection commission said in its first annual report on ...

I then set off on my mission: to explore as much of Rome and the Vatican City as I could in 48 hours. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...