(RNS) — Though data is sparse, the church and Italian atheists agree that the 2-decade-old process is becoming more common. (RNS) — Like most of his fellow Italians, Mattia Nanetti, 25, from the ...

Italian rapper Achille Lauro kicked off Italy's popular Sanremo song festival Tuesday with a televised performance of his hit "Domenica" (Sunday), kneeling at the end in mock prayer and performing a ...

VATICAN CITY — Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter ...