https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Facebook has backtracked over a decision to remove a picture of a famous nude Italian statue from its site due to the "explicitly sexual content". https://www.thelocal.it/20170104/facebook-apologizes-for-censoring-sexual-italian-statue Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:43:00 +0100 facebook-apologizes-for-censoring-sexual-italian-statue British film "Weekend" was restricted to just ten cinemas on its release in Italy on Thursday after the country's bishops branded Andrew Haigh's acclaimed gay love story "indecent" and "unusable" in the country's many Church-owned film theatres. https://www.thelocal.it/20160310/censorship-row-as-italy-bishops-curtail-release-of-gay-film Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:23:42 +0100 censorship-row-as-italy-bishops-curtail-release-of-gay-film