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

The pope has emerged as an increasingly lonely moral voice against perilous global trends like nationalism and populism.

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

The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is recovering from double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.

His first visit out of Rome after becoming pope was to Lampedusa, the port of call for many migrants. His poignant homily is a sort of 21st-century, albeit harsher, version of Zola’s J’accuse ...

In October around 400 people died in two separate migrant-boat disasters near the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which is often the migrants' first port of call. Following the incident and the ...

There is a new Islamist terror threat in Europe that the French describe as ‘low-cost terrorism’. The expression was deployed ...

Shot - not by gangsters, but by the police ...

Italy must pay compensation to migrants who were not allowed to disembark from a coast guard ship in August 2018, the country ...