Neapolitan-style nativity provides a new Christmas experience in the UK town of Bishop Auckland
Norwich, UK Setting up a nativity scene is one of the most popular methods of celebrating the Christmas story. In Bishop Auckland, in County Durham, northern England, a large Neapolitan-style Christmas scene is giving visitors a totally new experience. “Our visitors have been overwhelmed by the intricate detail and mesmerising composition of the Neapolitan nativity,” Catherine […]
Landslide hits Italian island of Ischia, one woman dead, 10 missing
Casamicciola Terme/Milan, Italy Reuters A woman was found dead and around 10 people were still missing on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide engulfed buildings during heavy rain on Saturday, a local Italian Government official said. Torrential rain hit the port of Casamicciola Terme, one of the six small towns on […]
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Italian police find stolen copy of Leonardo ‘Salvator Mundi’
Rome, Italy AP Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century Salvator Mundi painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without the priests even realising it was gone. The discovery was made when Naples police working on a bigger operation found the painting […]
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MICHELE BERTELLI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Italy…