Significant Sights: Revived pilgrim routes draw the faithful in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna
ANGELA YOUNGMAN looks at how newly revived pilgrim routes in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region are attracting a new generation of pilgrims…
San Marino voters overwhelmingly back legal abortion
San Marino/Rome, ItalyAP San Marino residents on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion, rejecting a 150-year-old law that had criminalized it and making the tiny republic the latest majority Catholic state to approve the procedure under certain circumstances. Some 77 per cent of voters approved a referendum proposal calling for abortion to be legal in […]
Tiny San Marino votes in referendum on legalising abortion
Rome, ItalyAP Tiny San Marino is one of the last countries in Europe which forbids abortion in any circumstance – a ban that dates from 1865. On Sunday, its citizens can vote in a referendum calling for abortion to be made legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The ballot proposal also calls for […]