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Rome's motorists blessed on feast day of S. Francesca Romana.
Each year on 9 March drivers in Rome can receive the blessing of the capital’s patron saint of motorists, S. Francesca Romana, at the monastery named in he...
App to facilitate transport between pilgrims and clergy during Rome's Jubilee Year.
The people behind Scooterino, Rome's community-based platform allowing users to share scooter rides, have announced a new app that wi...
Rome first stop on Rouhani's visit to Europe.
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on 26 January, the first meeting between a pope and an Iranian head of state since 1999,...
Pope Francis could be first pope to visit Rome's mosque.
Pope Francis may visit the Great Mosque of Rome during his special Holy Year of
Mercy, Ansa news agency reports. Francis would be the first pope to visit the...
Third visit by a pope to city's Great Synagogue.
Pope Francis is to visit the Great Synagogue of Rome on 17 January, at the invitation of the Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni and the city's Jewish community, during the V...
St Francis staged the first Presepe Vivente in Greccio just north of Rome.
Philip Biss.
Go to picturesque Greccio, perched high in the Sabina hills overlooking Rieti this Christmastide and enter the spirit of the...
A number of churches in Rome offer English language religious services over the Christmas season. For the Pope’s programme see the Vatican calendar of religious celebrations.
All Saints' Anglican Church
Via del Babu...
Jubilee launch attended by far fewer pilgrims than expected.
The façade and dome of St Peter's were illuminated with enormous images of humankind's relationship with nature on the evening of 8 December, marking the en...
Rome under tight security for opening of Holy Jubilee.
Rome is under tight security as Pope Francis opens Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy on Tuesday 8 December, the Catholic feast day of the Immaculate Conception. The holy...
Rome's nativity cribs over Christmas season.
Rome has numerous Christmas cribs on display at this time of the year, the best-known of which is 100 Presepi in Piazza del Popolo. The 40th edition of this annual internat...
St Peter's Christmas tree and crib to mark the Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy.
The Vatican will unveil the St Peter's Square Christmas tree on 8 December, coinciding with the first day of the Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy, r...
Vatican charges two Italian journalists with crime.
The representative for freedom of the media at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has called on the Vatican to withdraw its criminal accu...
Rome's public transport and tourist sites to get extra security.
Rome will have more than 2,000 extra police officers on duty from 23 November, 15 days before the Vatican's Holy Jubilee of Mercy begins on 8 December....
Rome Muslims demonstrate against Paris killings.
Muslims in Rome will demonstrate in Piazza SS. Apostoli in the centre of Rome to protest against terrorist violence in the name of Islam on Saturday 21 November.
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Latest threat to Vatican reforms.
The script is better than a Dan Brown novel. A middle-aged good-looking Spanish priest associated with the ultra conservative religious order Opus Dei has been arrested and thrown int...
Pope Francis to say Mass for All Saints at Campo Verano.
All Saints’ Day, or Ognissanti, on 1 November is a public holiday in Italy. However this year it falls on a Sunday so it won't affect the closure of public offi...
Italian newspaper carries exclusive report of a curable brain tumour.
The Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi has denied a report that Pope Francis has a benign and curable brain tumor.
The report was carried by QN...
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...
Toaff remembered for historic meeting with Pope John Paul II.
Rome's former Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff died on 19 April, two weeks before his 100th birthday.
Toaff served as the Rome's chief rabbi for 51 years, until 2...
Street closures and bus detours for Good Friday ceremony
Via dei Fori Imperiali will be completely closed to traffic on 3 April, from 09.00 until midnight, to make way for crowds coming to see Pope Francis lead the tr...
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