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 Parish newsletters don’t usually make for controversial reading, but a bulletin penned by a parish priest in northern Italy raised more than a few eyebrows when he suggested that cohabitation outside marriage was a worse sin than murder. He has since been forced to apologize. https://www.thelocal.it/20140623/cohabitation-is-worse-sin-than-murder-italian-priest Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:05:00 +0200 cohabitation-is-worse-sin-than-murder-italian-priest A disabled tourist from Sweden has been charged after holding up a train in northern Italy for 40 minutes in protest over the lack of facilities allowing disabled people to board trains with ease. https://www.thelocal.it/20131111/swede-stops-train-in-row-over-disabled-access Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:30:00 +0100 swede-stops-train-in-row-over-disabled-access