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How an Afghan refugee found kindness at Rome's Joel Nafuma Refugee Center.
My name is Rakin and I am a refugee. It is difficult for me to share my story, but I feel it’s important because I want others to understand t...
Wanted in Rome recently asked our readers to list their top five favourite things about living in Italy. Here are their replies.
Juan Carlos Gomez
1. You can walk for 10 minutes and see so much history within that ti...
Vatican launching train tour from Vatican City to Castel Gandolfo gardens.
The Vatican Museums is launching a new tour by train from the Vatican train station directly to the papal gardens at Castel Gandolfo, 25 km...
Capital stands up to organised crime following lavish Mafia funeral.
Politicians, trade unions and civil society associations are staging an anti-mafia protest at Piazza Don Bosco in Rome's Cinecittà district at 18.00...
Pontiff also recognises confessions made to irregular Society of St Pius X.
Pope Francis has given all priests discretion during the Catholic Church's Holy Year of Mercy to forgive women who have had abortions and are...
Europe's largest drive-in cinema reopens at Casal Palocco.
The long-abandoned drive-in cinema at Casal Palocco, a southwest Rome suburb, is reopening thanks to the efforts of the committee behind the Cinema America Oc...
How to get pilgrims to and from St Peter's.
Cleaning up the city is one project for the Holy Jubilee Year that opens on 8 December. A much more difficult one is how to cope with the traffic. This is the main headache...
Most restaurant customers are unaware of the human cost of their meals.
By Mike Dilien.
Rome. An evening breeze gently caresses your face after a suffocating day among the monuments. The street cobbles have dissipa...
American artist C. Finley is based between the US and Rome, and a detail of her work Fingaz 4 Daze featured on the cover of the August edition of Wanted in Rome magazine.
Your work has been described as “stylistically...
City starts public works.
The first public works in preparation for the Holy Year of Mercy are scheduled to start on 7 September around Stazione Termini.
The work around the station includes upgrading the surface...
Sweeping powers granted to Rome's prefect.
Rome prefect Franco Gabrielli has been granted sweeping powers to help the city's embattled mayor Ignazio Marino, following a decree approved by the Italian government on 27...
Square in Colle Oppio park to be named after Reformation leader.
Rome has approved plans to dedicate a piazza to Martin Luther, the 16th-century German theologian who rebelled against the Catholic church and began the...
By just 5 au pairs
1. They wear old man pajamas that normal people only wear on Christmas morning
2. Super scared of feet; house shoes, blue things on feet in showers at swimming because of the "mushrooms in the gro...
Sit-in set for 3 September.
A demonstration to protest the ostentatious funeral of the mafia boss, Vittorio Casamonica, is being called for 3 September.
The heads of Rome's 15 municipal districts have said that th...
Only three months before opening of the special Holy Year.
Announcing the city's plans for the coming Jubilee year Rome's mayor, Ignazio Marino, has outlined details and costs of some of the projects to make life easi...
20 journalists protected by armed escorts.
According to a report just published by Italy's anti-mafia commission threats and attacks on journalists are on the rise. There were 2,060 acts of intimidation against jour...
Hundreds missing.
Italy's news agency ANSA is reporting that about 300 people may have been saved from a boat off the coast of Libya carrying 700 immigrants heading for Italy.
The captain of the Irish rescue vessel...
Rome's mayor polishes city's tarnished image.
The fountain in Piazza S. Maria in Trastevere will be the first of 50 in the city's historic centre to be cleaned over the next few months.
The other fountains included...
Dual strike by ATAC and Roma Tpl.
Two public transport strikes are set to go ahead in the capital on Friday 7 August after mediation talks broke down between trade unions and the prefecture of Rome.
The strike acti...
Works to be completed ahead of Holy Jubilee.
The adminstration of Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has sanctioned a €4 million project to upgrade the area around the capital's central railway station Termini.
The works,...
Works to be completed ahead of Papal Jubilee.
The adminstration of Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has sanctioned a €4 million project to upgrade the area around the capital's central railway station Termini.
The works...
Unregistered drivers targeted tourists.
Police have impounded 38 illegal taxis and arrested their drivers at Rome's central Termini station in recent months.
The arrests – part of ongoing efforts by Italy's interio...
Street artist paints giant mural near prison.
Italian street artist Blu has painted a giant mural on Via Ciciliano in the north-east Rome suburb of Rebbibia.
The Bologna-based artist, who gained international recog...
Hollywood cast for The Young Pope.
Oscar-winning film director Paolo Sorrentino begins filming his new movie The Young Pope in Rome on 3 August.
There won't be any scenes filmed in the Vatican however, due to the...
Small is extra beautiful at the Finnish Institute in Rome.
The Finnish Institute in Rome – or, to give it its proper name, the Institutum Romanum Finlandiæ (IRF) – may cater to one of the smallest foreign European com...
Refuse workers react to Rome's rubbish crisis.
An article in national daily Italian newspaper La Repubblica sheds light on Rome's worsening rubbish problems by interviewing workers cleaning the streets in the city cen...
City council to change database but not street signs.
Rome's city council has backtracked after voting to phase out Roman numerals from the city's street signs and documents.
The plan, which caused controversy amon...
All departures suspended from Fiumicino airport due to nearby fire.
Rome's Fiumicino airport has suspended all departing flights on the afternoon of Wednesday 29 July after a fire broke out in a nearby pine grove, acc...
Assets of €400 million seized at port in Ostia
Rome's provincial finance police have impounded assets at Ostia's Porto Turistico di Roma marina, including yachts, car parks, offices and shops worth a total of around €...
Mayor claims reshuffle will produce visible results.
Rome's new city assembly was announced on 28 July by mayor Ignazio Marino who promised it would lead to a cleaner and better-organised capital.
Marino said the c...
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