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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Frances D'Emilio

This photo taken and released by the Vatican Media on November 6, 2023, shows Pope Francis during a meeting with a delegation of the Conference of European Rabbis in The Vatican. (Handout/Vatican Media/AFP)
November 6, 2023, 5:38 pm
Ailing pope decries antisemitism, terror and war in meeting with European rabbis
Pontiff references October 7 Hamas onslaught in prepared remarks, saying his prayers go ‘above all else, to everything that has happened in the last few weeks’
By Frances D'Emilio
Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, July 9, 2023. (AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia)
July 9, 2023, 10:22 pm
Pope Francis confers rank of cardinal on Jerusalem’s Latin patriarch
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 58, chosen by pontiff along with 20 others; church head expresses hope for dialogue between Israel and Palestinians, given recent violence
By Frances D'Emilio
Pope Francis blesses faithful with olive and palm branches before celebrating the Palm Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, April 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Filippo Monteforte, pool)
April 2, 2023, 2:33 pm
After being discharged from hospital, Pope Francis marks Palm Sunday at Vatican
After hospitalization for bronchitis, 86-year-old pontiff battles hoarseness, talks about ‘solitude of sickness’ during Mass address at St. Peter’s Square
By Frances D'Emilio
Italian actress and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) goodwill ambassador Gina Lollobrigida poses on the red carpet, on the occasion of World Food Day, at the 4th edition of the Rome Film Festival, in Rome, October 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
January 16, 2023, 4:09 pm
Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, a 1950s international sex symbol, dies at 95
Actress and filmmaker started her career in beauty pageants and was propelled to fame after WWII with movies such as ‘The World’s Most Beautiful Woman’ and ‘Come September’
By Frances D'Emilio
The coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is brought to St. Peter's Square for a funeral mass at the Vatican, January 5, 2023. (Ben Curtis/AP)
January 5, 2023, 11:18 am
Thousands pour into St. Peter’s Square for funeral of Benedict XVI
Pope Francis presides over Vatican ceremony for deceased former pontiff; small number of heads of state, royal delegations join service
By Nicole Winfield, Giada Zampano and Frances D'Emilio
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his departure at Munich Airport in Freising, Germany, June 22, 2020. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP, file)
December 28, 2022, 12:59 pm
Pope Francis asks for special prayers for ‘very sick’ predecessor Benedict XVI
Vatican cites ‘worsening’ condition of 95-year-old pope emeritus, who has become increasingly frail as he dedicates post-papacy life to prayer, meditation
By Frances D'Emilio
Giorgia Meloni holds an Italian flag as she addresses a rally in Rome, October 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
October 22, 2022, 8:25 am
New Italian PM steeped herself in far-right ideology as teen
In book last year, Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni discussed the right-wing fervor that led her to get involved with party founded by Mussolini nostalgists
By Frances D'Emilio
Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni is flanked by The League leader Matteo Salvini, right, Forza Italia president Silvio Berlusconi, Senator Licia Ronzulli and Antonio Tajani as she talks to the press at the Quirinale Presidential Palace after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella as part of a round of consultations with party leaders to try and form a new government, in Rome, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 21, 2022, 1:40 pm
Meloni requests mandate to form Italy’s first far-right-led government since WWII
Brothers of Italy leader, whose party has neo-fascist roots, meets with Italian president; she makes announcement flanked by her two main, right-wing allies Salvini and Berlusconi
By Frances D'Emilio
Pope Francis waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, October 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
October 2, 2022, 6:19 pm
Pope pleads with Putin for ceasefire in Ukraine, warns of nuclear risk
Pontiff implores Russian leader to stop ‘spiral of violence and death,’ while requesting Zelensky ‘be open’ to peace proposals
By Frances D'Emilio
Women wear signs with writing in Italian that say "Welfare is not the same for all," left, "It's not a woman's job," second from left, "Men advance; childbirth is not their problem," and "I don't have children but to be discriminated it's enough to be a woman," right, during a demonstration in front of the Finance Ministry on International Women's Day in Rome, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File )
September 28, 2022, 3:37 pm
Italian women and LGBTQ advocates raise the alarm after far-right election win
Activists warn that Giorgia Meloni, who ignored plea from Holocaust survivor to change party’s fascism-linked symbol, will promote ‘white, patriarchal and heterosexual nation’
By Frances D'Emilio and Trisha Thomas
People stage a protest as right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni addresses a rally in Ancona, Italy, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
September 18, 2022, 2:06 pm
‘God, homeland, family’: Prospect of far-right female premier divides Italian women
Many female voters face a question of gender versus agenda, with some worried that Giorgia Meloni, who exalts motherhood, may try to erode women’s rights, including abortion access
By Frances D'Emilio
A poster by Leader of Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, reading: Ready to revive Italy, in Rome, August 12, 2022. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)
August 17, 2022, 12:23 am
Italian far-right leader rides high in polls, rejects party’s links to fascism
Giorgia Meloni has disavowed the racist roots of Brothers of Italy, surging ahead of elections next month, though many voters are largely ‘ignorant’ of their country’s past anyway
By Frances D'Emilio
The latest discoveries in the ancient city of Pompeii, Saturday, August 6, 2022. (Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP)
August 7, 2022, 1:43 pm
Fresh Pompeii discoveries shed light on the city’s lower classes
While excavations in the ancient Roman city tend to focus on the wealthy upper-class, new discoveries reveal details of life for the not-so-rich-and-famous
By Frances D'Emilio
A man shows a picture of the victim Nigerian street vendor Alika Ogorchukwu, in Civitanova Marche, Italy, July 30, 2022. (AP/Chiara Gabrielli)
August 1, 2022, 10:52 am
Italians express shock after Nigerian immigrant beaten to death in street
Police say Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, was killed in broad daylight by man after asking him and girlfriend for pocket change, while bystanders stood by and filmed
By Frances D'Emilio
Illustrative: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during a parade celebrating their alliance. (Public domain)
July 30, 2022, 7:39 am
On centenary of Mussolini’s rise, Italy’s president warns against resurgent fascism
With neo-fascist party likely to come to power in September elections, Sergio Mattarella urges fellow citizens to work to safeguard democracy
By Frances D'Emilio
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