Climate activists have launched a campaign in the northern Italian province of Trentino to prevent a 29-meter tall silver fir ...

This year, a Christmas tree might not appear in St. Peter's Square ... The Ledro community has issued a special petition to ...

Pope Francis has been quite outspoken about the need to safeguard the environment but now the decision to chop down a ...

Roughly 40,000 people have signed a petition to stop the Green Giant from being cut down, slamming putting up Christmas trees as an “anachronistic outrage,” and one which has roots in Pagan winter ...

The beloved 100ft conifer is growing on the hillside near the city of Trento in the north of Trentino-South Tyrol - Alamy An ...

2023 8:36 a.m. ROME — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in ...

Pope Francis holds his pastoral staff as he presides over Christmas Eve Mass, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Recalling Jesus' birth in a ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

The Pope should stop this unnecessary anachronistic destruction. The residents of the Val di Ledro in Trentino are revolting ...

Church of the Nativity hosts pilgrims on Christmas Eve Pope Francis, the leader of roughly 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, is himself the grandson of Italian migrants. He said many of today's ...

The committees also refer to Pope Francis's historic encyclical Laudato Si': "We ask ... An initiative introduced by John ...