A sign above the entrance to Scidá's Garden, once the home of a Mafia boss, in Catania, Sicily. Photo via Stefania D'Ignoti. b Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On a hot summer day this past July ...

CATANIA, Italy — In a kitchen at Isola Quassud, a community center in eastern Sicily’s Catania, Elsa Habte roasts coffee beans on a pan over an open flame, while her daughter Meninet Teferi cuts a ...

Italy has been shaken by the alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in front of her boyfriend in a public park in the Sicilian city of Catania, the latest in a string of shocking sexual attacks in ...

Every Feb. 5, the Church remembers St. Agatha of Catania, a young woman who consecrated her virginity to God and died a martyr’s death during the persecution of the Roman Emperor Decius in the third ...

A young Irish woman who suffered life-changing injuries after she was struck by a car in Sicily has returned to Ireland where her condition ‘remains stable.’ Hannah Leonard, 22, was training for the ...