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 Thousands of Father Christmases gathered in Turin on Sunday at a rally to raise money for a children's hospital, with many arriving by scooter or bicycle rather than reindeer-pulled sled. https://www.thelocal.it/20181202/santas-rally-for-charity-in-italy Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:16:53 +0100 santas-rally-for-charity-in-italy Father Christmas traditionally delivers gifts by travelling in a magical sleigh and climbing down the chimney - but in Italy this year, he's made a more dramatic entrance. https://www.thelocal.it/20161207/parachuting-santas-bring-joy-to-kids-in-earthquake-towns Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:17:11 +0100 parachuting-santas-bring-joy-to-kids-in-earthquake-towns A safe was stolen from an important early Christian catacomb in Rome over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.it/20160411/safe-stolen-from-one-of-worlds-most-important-catacombs Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:14:00 +0200 safe-stolen-from-one-of-worlds-most-important-catacombs Angry parents in an Italian Alpine town dressed as elves this week in protest after a Sunday school priest told their children Father Christmas didn't exist. https://www.thelocal.it/20151218/outrcry-after-italy-priest-tells-kids-santa-isnt-real Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:21:55 +0100 outrcry-after-italy-priest-tells-kids-santa-isnt-real An unemployed man from a town near Rome fended off competition from over 300 rivals to be hired as Father Christmas at a shopping centre in the east of the capital. But the job isn't always a barrel of laughs, or so professional Santas say. https://www.thelocal.it/20151124/over-300-line-up-for-rome-father-christmas-job Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:03:22 +0100 over-300-line-up-for-rome-father-christmas-job A man caught urinating on the door of the Santa Croce church in Florence, one of Italy's most famous churches and the burial place of Michelangelo, justified his behaviour by claiming to be a non-believer. https://www.thelocal.it/20140925/atheist-caught-urinating-on-famed-florence-church Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:17:00 +0200 atheist-caught-urinating-on-famed-florence-church A surgeon accused of performing operations which led to the death of at least four people and two unrequired mastectomies should be sentenced to life, a prosecutor has said. https://www.thelocal.it/20140313/milan-clinic-of-horrors-doctor-killed-four Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:00 +0100 milan-clinic-of-horrors-doctor-killed-four