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ROME -- Meeting with friends, dining out, worshiping and other daily routines have nearly halted as nations take drastic steps to try to stop the coronavirus pandemic. Religious leaders gave sermons to empty pews or to the faithful watching online Sunday after public worship was curtailed in many places. The…

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ROME  — The devil always goes to extremes in his attacks on Christians, Pope Francis said Wednesday, either through the soft sell of worldly glory and comfort or the violence of enraged persecution. In his live-streamed morning Mass at the chapel of his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican, Pope…

Cardinal George Pell's last-chance appeal against his child sex abuse convictions opened in Australia's top court on Wednesday, with his fate now in the hands of the country's most senior judges. The 78-year-old, who is serving a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s, was not present…

As of Monday, 463 out of 9,172 people infected with coronavirus in Italy have died. It has a national death rate that is higher than the global average. The new figures make the country home to the largest number of infections outside China.Experts estimate that Italy's aging population may correlate to the…

Italy is taking unprecedented steps to slow an alarming jump in the spread of the coronavirus. Its northern region, home to around 16 million people or about a quarter of the country's population, has been under a virtual lockdown since Sunday.The country is the hardest hit outside of Asia with…

Published on Mar 8, 2020Saying he felt "caged," Pope Francis delivered his blessing over the internet from inside the Vatican on Sunday, instead of from a window, to stop crowds gathering during Italy's COVID-19 outbreak.He did, however, go to the window and wave silently to several hundred people in the…

(Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte tried to contain the alarm spreading through Europe’s fourth-biggest economy, unveiling drastic measures in the middle of the night to restrict the spread of the deadly coronavirus.In a hastily convened news conference Sunday morning, the head of a government already hanging by a…

Pope Francis has canceled his regular public appearances to avoid crowds gathering to see him during the coronavirus outbreak.The Vatican said that on Sunday (March 8) the 83-year-old pontiff will not address crowds from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, and for the time being, will opt for video streaming…