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¿cuándo y a qué hora comienza?
El funeral del papa Francisco seguirá una tradición centenaria, con rituales de varios días y un velatorio que permitirá a dolientes de todo el mundo honrarlo en persona antes de que sea enterrado. Está previsto que comience el sábado a las 10:00 a. m., hora local. Al interior del Vaticano, el ritual comienza cuando se convoca al director del Departamento de Salud vaticano para que certifique la muerte del pontífice.
AchtergrondPausverkiezing Eén grote favoriet voor het pausschap is er niet, maar onder Vaticaan-watchers circuleren verschillende namen om Franciscus op te volgen. Die namen reflecteren de richting die de rooms-katholieke kerk kan uitgaan. Emma Bubola, Elisabetta Povoledo, Gaia Pianigiani en Neil MacFarquhar22 april 2025, 11:40Leestijd 6 min Gissingen over wie de volgende rooms-katholieke paus wordt, blijken niet zelden onjuist.
Who will be the next pope? Here are some possible contenders.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, second from right, of the Phillipines celebrates Mass during the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis on July 21, 2024. Tagle is among those named as potential successors to Pope Francis. ISADORA KOSOFSKY NYT Guesses about who the next Roman Catholic pope will be often prove inaccurate. Before the selection of Pope Francis in 2013, many bookmakers had not even counted him among the front-runners.
What’s Involved in a Papal Funeral?
The funeral for Pope Francis will follow a centuries-old tradition, with rituals spanning several days and a viewing of his body that will allow mourners from around the world to honor him in person before he is laid to rest. The timing of the funeral has yet to be announced. Inside the Vatican, the ritual begins when the director of the Vatican’s Health Department is summoned to certify the pontiff’s death.
muere el papa Francisco a los 88 aƱos
El papa Francisco, quien surgió de un origen humilde en Argentina para convertirse en el primer pontífice jesuita y latinoamericano, quien se enfrentó implacablemente con los tradicionalistas en su impulso por una Iglesia católica más incluyente, y quien habló incansablemente en favor de los migrantes, los marginados y la salud del planeta, murió el lunes en la Casa Santa Marta, en el Vaticano. Tenía 88 años.
What’s Involved in a Papal Funeral?
6 hours ago VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88. Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the …
Lo que sucedió cuando esta provincia italiana invirtió en procrear más bebés
En un edificio municipal en el corazón de la ciudad alpina de Bolzano, Stefano Baldo salió temprano del trabajo para su descanso de lactancia. “Es obvio que yo no amamanto”, dijo Baldo, administrador de transportes de 38 años, en su despacho decorado con fotos de su mujer y sus seis hijos. Pero con su mujer en casa con un recién nacido, uno de los padres tenía derecho por ley a tomarse ese tiempo, y él necesitaba recoger a los niños. “Es muy conveniente”.
How an Italian province made it affordable to have a family mogaznewsen
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Dozens of Migrants Die After Their Dinghy Deflates in the Mediterranean Original
A European humanitarian aid group said on Thursday that about 50 migrants died after their small boat deflated during an attempt to cross the central Mediterranean Sea. A ship belonging to the charity, SOS Mediterranee, spotted the deflating rubber dinghy on Wednesday, in international waters under the Libyan rescue jurisdiction. Twenty-five dehydrated and exhausted migrants were on board.
Algunos casos de violación acaparan la atención en Italia y dejan expuestas fisuras culturales
Aunque las violaciones de las dos niñas, primas de solo 10 y 12 años, ocurrieron a lo largo de varios meses, captaron la atención nacional la semana pasada después de que el medio noticioso local divulgó la noticia y puso de nuevo bajo los reflectores el tema de la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas en Italia. Esos ataques son solo un ejemplo de una serie de terribles delitos que se han visto en las noticias este verano.
Flooding in Tuscany Leaves Six Dead
Europe|Flooding in Tuscany Leaves Six Dead https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/world/europe/flooding-tuscany-italy.html Storm Ciaran swept into Italy with torrential rains overnight, continuing its deadly push across Western Europe. Reporting from Rome Nov.
Matteo Messina Denaro, escurridizo jefe de la Cosa Nostra, muere en prisión
Organized CrimeDeaths (Obituaries)Cosa NostraMessina Denaro, MatteoSicily (Italy) Te puede interesar: El reinado de Jann Wenner en el Salón de la Fama del Rock duró años y terminó en veinte minutos Miembro de alto rango de la mafia italiana, fue detenido en enero tras décadas prófugo. Fue localizado debido a los historiales médicos relacionados con su tratamiento contra el cáncer.
Long-sought Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies at 61
Unlimited access to premium stories for as low as $12.95 /mo. Get It Now ROME >> Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted killer and high-ranking mobster with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra who had eluded capture for three decades, died today in a hospital in the central Italian city of L’Aquila, where he had been serving time in a maximum-security prison. He was 61. Alessandro Cerella, a lawyer for Messina Denaro, said the cause was colon cancer.
Rape cases shock and worry society in Italy
Caivano, Italy- Around the abandoned pool you can see pieces of glass, deteriorated benches, broken tiles and a dirty mattress. The local police identified this solitary space as one of the places where, according to their information, two girls were raped several times by a group of their peers, all residents of the Italian town of Caivano, on the outskirts of Naples.
Varios casos de violación acaparan la atención en Italia y dejan expuestas fisuras culturales
Alrededor de la alberca abandonada se ven trozos de vidrio, bancas deterioradas, azulejos rotos y un colchón sucio. La policía local identificó este espacio solitario como uno de los lugares en que, según su información, dos niñas fueron violadas varias veces por un grupo de sus pares, todos residentes del poblado italiano de Caivano, a las afueras de Nápoles.
Rape cases seize Italy’s attention and expose cultural rifts
CAIVANO, Italy — Shattered glass surrounds the abandoned swimming pool, along with dilapidated benches, broken tiles and a single dirty mattress. Local police officers have identified the forsaken spot as one of the places where they say two young girls were repeatedly raped by a gang of their peers, all residents of the Italian town of Caivano, on the outskirts of Naples.
In Italy, Rape Cases Seize Attention and Expose Cultural Rifts
A summer of horrific crimes, including the gang rapes of two young girls, has put a new focus on the country’s attitudes toward women and the amplifying role of social media. Reporting from Caivano, Italy Shattered glass surrounds the abandoned swimming pool, along with dilapidated benches, broken tiles and a single dirty mattress.
¿Tradición o calor?: el reto de los europeos para luchar contra las altas temperaturas
FLORENCIA, Italia — Hace poco, turistas estaban parados bajo sombrillas afuera de la majestuosa catedral de Florencia, en busca de sombra. Vendedores callejeros ofrecían abanicos y sombreros de paja. Los lugareños salpicaban sus rostros en fuentes, en busca de alivio de una ola de calor más en Europa. “Se siente igual que en casa”, expresó Alina Magrina, una mujer de 64 años de California, que también ha sido golpeado por temperaturas abrasadoras.
Calor extremo é a ‘nova covid’ para os idosos na Europa, forçados ao isolamento
ROMA, THE NEW YORK TIMES - Enquanto uma brisa leve e quente soprava em sua sala de estar e seus cabelos grisalhos, Donata Grillo, uma sobrevivente do câncer de 75 anos com marca-passo e sérios problemas de visão, sentou-se ao lado de sua varanda com uma esponja úmida no colo. Era tudo o que ela tinha para se refrescar esta semana, quando as temperaturas chegaram a quase 41ºC em Roma, na Itália, sua terra natal.
Il clima presenta il conto
Quando la settimana scorsa le inondazioni hanno colpito la città di Lugo, facendo straripare un corso d’acqua che ha sommerso le strade e i campi circostanti, Irinel Lungu, 45 anni, si è rifugiato con la moglie e il figlio piccolo al secondo piano della loro casa.
Floods in Northern Italy Kill at Least 14
Eleven years in the past this month, back-to-back earthquakes struck the northern Italian area of Emilia-Romagna, which this week was devastated by one other catastrophe: Widespread flooding that has brought on at the least 14 deaths and left 1000’s extra homeless. On Friday, rescue employees continued to clear streets of mud, whereas cities within the Ravenna space remained submerged.
Pope Francis quips he’s ‘still alive’ after hospital stay
4 min read Pope Francis was discharged from a hospital in Rome after undergoing treatment for bronchitis. The Vatican said he would take part in all of the Holy Week celebrations.
Tragedia de migrantes despierta empatía
No era. Era una niña. Desde que un barco se partió frente a la costa de Calabria el 26 de febrero, matando a 86 a bordo, incluidos más de 30 niños menores de 12 años, dijeron funcionarios europeos, Italia se ha visto envuelta en un furioso debate sobre quién es el responsable.
La tragedia de los migrantes en Italia despierta empatía y frustración
En las semanas transcurridas desde que Vincenzo Luciano sacó una docena de cuerpos del mar embravecido en el sur de Italia, ha estado atento a la playa, ahora cubierta de chaquetas y tenis, en busca del hijo desaparecido de un sobreviviente de un naufragio que prometió ayudar a encontrar. Un miércoles reciente, Luciano, un pescador de 50 años, vio cómo rescatistas sacaban el cadáver de otro pequeño de la orilla del agua. “Quizás sea él”, dijo. No era. Era una niña.
Migrantų tragedijos graudina italus, bet ne Georgią Meloni: „Mano sąžinė švari“
Trečiadienį 50-metis žvejas V.Luciano nuo kopos stebėjo, kaip gelbėtojai į krantą traukė dar vieno vaiko lavoną. Jis ištempė kaklą, kad dirstelėtų į pakrančių apsaugos pikapo vidų. „Galbūt tai jis“, – sakė jis. Ne – kūnelis buvo mažos mergaitės.
Migrantai toliau plūsta Europą, bet su krize nesitvarkoma - kaip reaguoja pakrančių šalys?
Anuomet Europos Sąjunga suteikė Italijai dešimčių milijonų eurų vertės finansinės pagalbos, pažadėjo padėti vykdyti gelbėjimo operacijas ir sukurti veiksmingesnę viso bloko migracijos ir prieglobsčio politiką. „Padarysime viską, ką galime, su turimomis priemonėmis, kad pakeistume situaciją“, – tuomet sakė tuometinis Europos Komisijos pirmininkas José Manuelis Barroso.
Dopo Lampedusa è cambiato poco
Dieci anni fa un peschereccio malandato che trasportava un numero eccessivo di persone si capovolse al largo delle coste italiane, causando la morte di 368 migranti. Dopo quella tragedia l’Unione europea fornì aiuti finanziari all’Italia per decine di milioni di euro, promettendo di rafforzare le operazioni di salvataggio e di elaborare una politica migratoria e dell’asilo più efficace.
Una fuga di trent’anni
I crimini commessi da Matteo Messina Denaro fanno gelare il sangue anche se si tiene conto degli standard della mafia. I magistrati gli hanno attribuito decine di omicidi negli anni novanta, compreso il rapimento e l’uccisione di un bambino di dodici anni, figlio di un pentito, il cui corpo è stato poi sciolto nell’acido.
Friday, January 20, 2023
Today we're going to get to questions, but first we're going to think just a bit about crime and punishment. We need to remind ourselves that in a fallen, sinful world, not only does sin happen, but sin becomes a syndicate, it becomes formalized, it becomes corporatized, it becomes, well, big business, big evil business. And sometimes this comes to light, it did just in the last few days.
Matteo Messina Denaro, Italian, Mafia Boss, Is Arrested
The Italian police on Monday arrested maybe the nation’s most needed fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a mafia boss who had eluded the authorities for 3 a long time and was convicted in absentia of homicide and different crimes. Mr. Messina Denaro, 60, was arrested in a hospital in Palermo, in his native Sicily, the place he was present process remedy, Pasquale Angelosanto, a basic with the Italian nationwide police, mentioned in a press release.
Landslide tragedy turns Italy's focus to illegal construction
CASAMICCIOLA TERME, Italy — A bulldozer paused and everything went silent in the night as a firefighter, spotting a pink sweater in a generator’s light, reached into the mud-caked debris. This time, it was only a sweater. Torrential rains last weekend sent a powerful landslide plowing through Casamicciola Terme, a port town on the southern Italian island of Ischia, killing 11 residents — including a newborn baby and two small children — and washing away houses and burying streets.
Landslide on Italian island sweeps away homes, turns roads into rivers of mud
At least one person was killed and nearly a dozen were missing Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia, where heavy rains caused a landslide that engulfed streets, vehicles and houses and left hundreds of people without electricity or running water. Authorities said a woman in the town of Casamicciola, in Ischia’s north, died in the landslide, and they estimated that 10 people were missing.
Pope Francis Compares Russia's War Against Ukraine to a Devastating Stalin-Era Famine
Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to the “terrible Holodomor genocide” of the 1930s, when the policies of the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, caused a devastating famine in Ukraine. The pontiff’s comparison of Moscow’s attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine to Stalin’s decision to let millions in Ukraine starve represents one of his strongest condemnations yet of the Russian invasion.
Pope compares Ukraine war to the ‘terrible’ Stalin-era famine
“And let us think of war-torn Ukraine.” The pontiff then asked that people join Ukraine this Saturday in commemorating “the terrible Holodomor genocide, the extermination by the hunger of 1932-33 artificially caused by Stalin”. “Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and let us pray for all Ukrainians, the children, the women and the elderly, the babies who are today suffering the martyrdom of aggression,” he said.
Italy seizes superyacht tied to Putin
After weeks of investigation, Italian authorities announced late Friday that they had impounded a nearly $700 million superyacht, saying that its owner had “significant economic and business links” to “prominent elements of the Russian government.” According to U.S. officials, the prominent element is none other than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin-linked superyacht in Italy may avoid sanctions by sailing away
MARINA DI CARRARA, Italy — The Italian police are in a race to finish investigating the ownership of a $700 million superyacht, which U.S. officials say is linked to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, before the vessel is put to sea and able to elude possible sanctions. They may be running out of time. After spending months dry-docked in the Tuscan port of Marina di Carrara, the 459-foot vessel, called the Scheherazade, was put into the water again Tuesday.
La tripulación rusa del superyate Scheherazade vinculado a Putin abandonó el barco
El Scheherazade, uno de los yates más grandes y caros del mundo está amarrado en el puerto de la pequeña ciudad italiana de Marina di Carrara (Reuters) Los miembros de la tripulación rusa de un misterioso yate de lujo de 700 millones de dólares que, según las autoridades estadounidenses, podría ser propiedad del presidente ruso Vladimir V.
A 459-Foot Mystery in a Tuscan Port: Is It a Russian's Superyacht?
The Scheherazade, one of the world's biggest and most expensive superyachts, dominates the waterfront in Marina di Carrara on March 4, 2022. (Gaia Pianigiani/The New York Times) From Germany’s North Sea ports to the French Riviera, open season has been declared on superyachts. Across Europe, authorities are hunting down luxury vessels tied to Russian oligarchs in the effort to inflict pain on President Vladimir Putin’s allies.
A viral photo helps bring Syrian refugee family to Italy
The award-winning photograph — of a man who had lost a leg in a bomb attack in Syria, hoisting into the air his son, born without limbs, another casualty of the country’s civil war — went viral last year in Italy. On Friday, Munzir El Nezzel, the man in the picture, and his son Mustafa arrived in Italy after a remarkable effort by the organizers of the Siena International Photo Awards, to bring them and their family from Turkey, where they had fled after Syria.
Access to truthful information on vaccines is ‘human right,’ Pope Francis says
ASSOCIATED PRESS / JAN. 26 Pope Francis walks to reach his chair as he arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican. Information based on scientific facts is a human right, Pope Francis said Friday, urging Catholic journalists to help people who were misled by false reports about the coronavirus and vaccines.
A viral photo helps bring Syrian refugee family to Italy
SIENA, Italy — The award-winning photograph — of a man who had lost a leg in a bomb attack in Syria, hoisting into the air his son, born without limbs, another casualty of the country’s civil war — went viral last year in Italy. On Friday, Munzir El Nezzel, the man in the picture, and his son Mustafa arrived in Italy after a remarkable effort by the organizers of the Siena International Photo Awards, to bring them and their family from Turkey, where they had fled after Syria.
A viral photo helps bring Syrian refugee family to Italy
SIENA, Italy — The award-winning photograph — of a man who had lost a leg in a bomb attack in Syria, hoisting into the air his son, born without limbs, another casualty of the country’s civil war — went viral last year in Italy. On Friday, Munzir El Nezzel, the man in the picture, and his son Mustafa arrived in Italy after a remarkable effort by the organizers of the Siena International Photo Awards, to bring them and their family from Turkey, where they had fled after Syria.
How the wreck of a cruise liner changed an Italian island Original
GIGLIO PORTO, Italy — The curvy granite rocks of the Tuscan island of Giglio lay bare in the winter sun, no longer hidden by the ominous, stricken cruise liner that ran aground in the turquoise waters of this marine sanctuary 10 years ago. Few of the 500-odd residents of the fishermen’s village will ever forget the freezing night of Jan. 13, 2012, when the Costa Concordia shipwrecked, killing 32 people and upending life on the island for years.
A janitor's colleagues put him on the fast track to retirement
At 64, Alfredo Lupi, a janitor at a factory in Graffignana, an industrial town southeast of Milan, was less than three years away from his retirement, a threshold that was at once incredibly close but impossibly far. A cognitive impairment that he had almost since birth was making his job more difficult by the day. The condition was too debilitating for him to work without discomfort, but quitting would have been hard to afford without a pension. That's where his co-workers came in.
Los colegas de un conserje aceleraron su jubilación
En una fotografía proporcionada por Pietro Senna, Alfredo Lupi, el quinto desde la derecha, posa con sus compañeros de trabajo en la fábrica Senna Inox en Graffignana, Italia, el 23 de diciembre de 2021. (Pietro Senna vía The New York Times) A los 64 años, Alfredo Lupi, un conserje en una fábrica de Graffignana, una ciudad industrial al sureste de Milán, estaba a menos de tres años de su jubilación, un umbral que estaba al mismo tiempo increíblemente próximo pero imposiblemente lejano.
A Janitor's Colleagues Put Him on the Fast Track to Retirement
At 64, Alfredo Lupi, a janitor at a factory in Graffignana, an industrial town southeast of Milan, was less than three years away from his retirement, a threshold that was at once incredibly close but impossibly far. A cognitive impairment that he had almost since birth was making his job more difficult by the day. The condition was too debilitating for him to work without discomfort, but quitting would have been hard to afford without a pension. That’s where his co-workers came in.
What’s a soccer player worth? Italy’s regulators are asking.
By Tariq Panja and Gaia Pianigiani The New York Times | Nov 17, 2021 at 9:51 AM Even by the standards of soccer’s murky multibillion-dollar player trading market, where values are at times little more than crowdsourced guesses, one deal in the summer of 2020 stood out. It was not necessarily the tens of millions of dollars that Italian league giant Napoli was paying the French club Lille to sign Victor Osimhen that attracted attention.
What’s a soccer player worth? Italy’s regulators are asking.
Even by the standards of soccer’s murky multibillion-dollar player trading market, where values are at times little more than crowdsourced guesses, one deal in the summer of 2020 stood out. It was not necessarily the tens of millions of dollars that Italian league giant Napoli was paying the French club Lille to sign Victor Osimhen that attracted attention. Few would have argued that Osimhen, a young Nigerian striker with a vast upside, was not worth a premium price.
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