In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on ...

Examining a 700-year-old fresco depicting an Islamic tent in an Italian church ... to conceal the male priest from the eyes of celibate nuns. Dr Federica Gigante, a historian from Cambridge ...

When Jake Kutina spent the fall semester of his junior year in college studying abroad in Italy and then in Athens, he developed a love for traveling and wanted to return to Italy. At the end of ...

The monastery and a complex of Camaldolese cottages were founded in 1604 by Grand Court Marshal Mikołaj Wolski. The Italian-inspired buildings were erected on one of the hills near Krakow; the place ...

Two Italian nuns abducted by Al Shabab militias last November have been freed. An Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman gave no details on the release but a Catholic missionary news agency said the ...

Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...