A reported 93 migrants have landed on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, local ...

Italy’s highest appeals court has ordered the government to compensate a group of migrants who were stranded at sea for days ...

Francis, spiritual leader to nearly 1.4 billion baptized Catholics worldwide, has spent the past dozen years of his papacy ...

A migrant aid group said a rescue ship saved 32 people stranded for days on a gas platform off Tunisia in the Mediterranean.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls decision involving the coast guard ship Diciotti “highly questionable” and “very ...

A charity vessel has rescued more than 30 migrants including two children who had been stranded for four days on a gas ...

ROME, March 4 (Reuters) - A charity vessel has rescued more than 30 migrants including two children ... ship Aurora left (the Italian island of) Lampedusa to rescue them. Now the people are ...

Thirteen migrants with health problems were first disembarked on the island of Lampedusa, off Italy’s southern coast. The ship then headed to Catania, in Sicily, but was blocked for about 10 ...

A 'grave sin' to turn away migrants After a decade of encouraging ... outside the Vatican as pope to a tiny Italian island called Lampedusa, in 2013. There, he tossed a wreath of flowers into ...

Thirteen migrants with health problems were first disembarked on Lampedusa island off Italy’s southern tip. The ship then headed to Catania in Sicily, but was blocked for about 10 days by ...