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Spoleto has all you’d expect in an Italian town: art, loads of history, a lively cultural environment and good food.

A group of 20 High Point University students traveled to Italy during spring break in late February, which coincided with the ...

Georgia Hunter launches her second novel, 'One Good Thing', highlighting resilience in Italy during the Holocaust.

As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to ...

ASSISI, Italy — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and one of the oldest popes in the Roman Catholic Church's history, has served as pope since 2013 ...

(AP video shot by Chris Warde Jones. Production by Maria Grazia Murru) A votive statue of Italy’s patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi, left, is on display among other religious items at a shop in ...

Who was St. Francis? In 1182, Francis was born to a wealthy family in Assisi, which rises above a fertile valley in central Italy. Praying in front of a crucifix, he heard a call to reform the church.

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to this hilltop town to pray at the tomb of St ...

“There is a situation of waiting but also of hope,” he said. Dell’Orto reported from Assisi, Italy. Paolo Santalucia contributed from Rome. Associated Press writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state ...