Click and it’s done. Love-locked forever. Roman lovers have a special way to seal their undying love on Valentine’s Day…. They attach a lock on a lamp-post on one of Rome’s most famous bridges and toss the key into the Tiber River….and no one can tear them apart…or so they say. For several years now […]
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A heavy, wet snow fell over the Vatican Friday night creating a deep sense of gloom and doom around the small city-state following a shocking front page story Friday morning revealing a plot to kill the Pope. The news story was the culmination of what appears to be vicious infighting behind Vatican walls. The Italian daily
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Last night I got to go to a special preview showing for the film “Diaz – Don’t Clean Up this Blood”, an Italian film in which my son Nico had a small role as a No-Global protester from France who goes to the G8 Summit in Genoa to join in the massive demonstrations. But he,
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Dear Blog Readers: I am gearing up to cover a Consistory at the Vatican on February 18th and 19th during which Pope Benedict XVI will create 22 new cardinals. Eighteen of these new “Princes of the Church” will be eligible to vote for the next Pope in the next conclave. A Consistory is always a
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It snowed in Rome today!! It was unbelieveable. I have lived here for 18 years and I have never seen anything like it. Once every few years there is a brief flurry of wet snowflakes, but they almost always melt immediately. Today it snowed from lunch-time until evening. I am from Boston, so I love
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Food and fevers are at the top of any good Italian mamma’s to-do list, but clothing is not far behind. Italian mammas are obsessive about how their children dress and Italian children are often perfectly dressed. First, they have to have a canottiera, undershirt. They actually call it the ‘maglia della salute’, the health shirt.
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L’ufficio di Associated Press Televisione a Roma segue gli eventi italiani, quelli in Vaticano e le attività delle due agenzie dell’ONU a Roma, la FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) e il WFP (World Food Programme). Negli anni, sono sempre rimasta colpita dal coraggio e dalla determinazione delle tante persone che lavorano al WFP e sono
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The Rome office of Associated Press Television News covers Italy, the Vatican and also the two UN organizations based in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme. Over the years I have been impressed at the bravery and determination of many of the people working at the WFP who are willing