Tag Archives : Silvio Berlusconi

In a recent edition of The Times, the magazine had reported that, Italy had allegedly paid off thousands of dollars to the Taliban operating in Afghanistan to ensure that the areas under the Italian forces remained safe and free from terror attacks. The transactions was believed to have been conducted the by the intelligence service of Italy. Now, Italy [...]

For months, a serious journal of the Italian Bishops Conference, the “Avvenire” remained distant from what is the main topic of conversation in Italy: the spicy life of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But when readers complained, saying the newspaper of the Catholic Church might have a moral obligation to denounce the divorce, relationships [...]

It is but 18 months away from the G8′s self-imposed deadline for promises pledged to aid Africa but only $7 billion out of the $21.5 billion in aid, promised at the Gleneagles summit in 2005, have actually been delivered. This means that a paltry one-third of the total pledges made by the G8 group of industrialized countries has actually benefited [...]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that there have been 806 significant earthquakes in central Italy in the most recent days, not giving seismic respite to the country that still mourns the death of 289 victims of the April 6 Monday earthquake that measured 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. Berlusconi attended the Friday mass funeral in [...]

It is always difficult to take sides on this debate. The moral aspects involved simply are not in black and white. Italy does not permit euthanasia. Patients have a right to refuse treatment, but there is no law that allows them to give advance directions on their treatment if became incapacitated. So when Eluana Englaro , 38, fell into what her [...]

The court has ruled in favor of Eluana Englaro’s right to die. She has been in a coma for 17 years, since a car crash in 1992. The doctors at the private clinic where she has been recently transferred have already started to withhold food from her feeding tube. Her family has already allowed her to die. Now, her case is the subject of a fierce debate [...]