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In Italy, like everywhere in Europe, we can feel that the Neo-Nazis are coming up again. Nationalism and fascism are slowly creeping in our ...

  Monday's surprising announcement by Pope Benedict XVI that he was resigning from the papacy struck some observers like a bolt ...

Voor het eerst in de moderne geschiedenis treedt een paus vroegtijdig  af. De laatste die dat deed was Celestinus V in het jaar 1294. Greg...

Rome emerged as the prime power of the Mediterranean thanks in part to trade. It imported huge amounts of wheat, especially from Egypt. In...

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means t...