Rome - The Colosseum is to get a 25 million euro (33.6 million dollar) facelift, courtesy of Italian shoe industrialist Diego Della Valle's group Tod's, Italian officials announced Friday.Re

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno says the city has given up on hosting a Formula One race. The announcement comes a week after F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone wrote Alemanno a letter saying it would be difficult

— A newly revealed 1997 document shows that the Vatican warned Irish Bishops against mandatory reporting of suspected child-abuse cases by priests to the police. Victims groups are calling this

using only a blog post he wrote at the Adam Smith Institute as a source , that Iceland had suddenly eliminated its deficit after its access to the financial markets were in effect cut off. But while i

"In Mexico, we have let the violent ones do the talking,"says journalist Marcela Turati, author of"Fuego Cruzado"(Crossfire), a new book that tells the stories of victims of President Felipe Calderón's war on drugs, which has left an official death toll of 30,000 in four years.

Lahore Cathedral in Pakistan was packed on Sunday, January 16th. There were not only Christians but members of the civil society present, despite the foggy morning to‘warm up’ against ris

Posted Friday 21 January 2011 The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld& Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says:“The Scottish Episcopal Church is

Rome has abandoned plans to host a Formula One grand prix from 2013. The Italian capital had hoped to stage a race, with the circuit to run through the EUR (Esposizione Universale Roma) district in t

New Delhi, Jan 21 : Is denial of the Scheduled Castes reservations to Dalit Christians and Muslims - as available to Hindus, Sikh, and Buddhists - violative of Article 14 of the constitution? The Supr

As storm clouds gathered this month around Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for his alleged sex parties with underage girls, the Vatican remained strangely silent. Pope Benedict has been conc

CARROLLTON, Texas, (christiansunite.com) -- Gospel for Asia-supported missionary Anthony lost his home and everything in it as floodwaters washed through his village last week in Sri Lanka.

President, Executive Council AppointedVATICAN CITY, JAN. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Attilio Nicora, currently head of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, a

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The president of the Vatican's Christian unity council will join with a Lutheran delegation Sunday in a ceremony at St. Paul's Outside the Walls, wh

Aid Agency Helping Both Churches in RussiaWURZBURG, Germany, JAN. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches after the disintegration of the Soviet Union 20 years

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the life sentence for Dara Singh, convicted for killing Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in Orissa's Koenjhar district in 1999.