Proposal is the latest in a series bgy Italian government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ,to regulate public ...

The Italian Parliament has passed a law that will make “religion” an optional subject in the high school curriculum. It has been hailed as a victory for the democratic and pluralistic philosophy and a ...

BERGAMO, Italy (RNS) — In an entrance hall to Azzano San Paolo, Bergamo’s only Islamic cemetery, hang the names of 43 Muslim community members who died during this northern Italian city’s disastrous ...

Offenses against the symbols of religions other than the Roman Catholics are not strictly punishable under the Italian Penal Code, while such insults against Catholicism are severely punishable as ...

ROME — The Italian Senate’s decision to legalize same-sex unions is being viewed by many as a victory for conservative Catholics after those opposed to the bill succeeded in stripping a key component ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops provided their first accounting of clergy sexual abuse and revealed Thursday that more than 600 cases from Italy were on file at the Vatican since 2000.

For Italian Protestants, the going has never been very easy. The followers of 12th Century Protestant Peter Waldo were hunted in the hills for 650 years; in a single day, 150 of them were burned alive ...

The Protestants are making headway among Italy’s Roman Catholics. So said the Vatican last week in a report compiled by the Paulist Fathers, who were assigned three years ago to survey Italian ...