The curious mixture of pagan, fairytale and Christian traditions make our celebrations of the Nativity very interesting in ...

Nicholas in Bari, Italy, which was built to house the bones of St ... While they argued, one of the guardians somehow made ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.

As the Church pushes for harsher drug laws in Italy, a series of cases suggest that the priesthood is hiding a problem of its ...

Officials in an historic Italian town are cracking down on so-called 'pasta grannies' amid accusations some pass off ...

OP-ED. Theologian François Euvé explains why Pope Francis has chosen to visit Ajaccio (Corsica) on Sunday for a symposium on ...

With deft flicks of the wrist, Nunzia Caputo cuts small chunks off the end of a sausage-shaped roll of fresh pasta dough, ...

Council of Europe urges action on ‘disturbing’ conditions including broad distribution of unprescribed tranquilisers at one site ...

Sky News was on board the Geo Barents last year when its crew rescued more than 600 people who had been crammed together on ...

Webuild has inaugurated Roboplant 2, a state-of-the-art facility in Bovino, Southern Italy, dedicated to producing ...

The major tragedy occurred on the evening of December 2nd when a swift, successful German air raid, took place on the port of Bari during the dusk period, when the harbour lighting was on, and ...

We drive out of our places of worship all the traditions of the tree, the Nativity scene, the figure of Santa Claus, Jesus as ...