The Vatican. | Photo by Anam Siddiq.

    Baby Blues: Birth regulation in Italy

    As the debate over birth control in the US rages on, this video takes a closer look at the duality of opinions – and practice – of women’s reproductive rights in Italy, and how the Catholic Church extends its long arms of the law across the pond.

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    Fighting the Good Fight: Profile of an Evangelical Missionary in Italy

    Brent Harrell is a Protestant Evangelical from Boise, Idaho who now lives and works in Rome as a missionary for his faith. Through his various efforts, some stemming from within the church he set up in a suburb of Rome, he hopes to missionize the world’s most Catholic country.

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    The nuns of Rome | Photo by Andrea Palatnik.

    The nuns of Rome

    While wandering the streets of Rome, Andrea Palatnik was struck by the volume of nuns in the city. Camera in hand, she documented almost every nun she came across and put together a slideshow.

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    Outside the camps: Helping the Roma in Rome

    The Roma (gypsies) are a group of people who are historically Italy’s most marginalized, hated, victimized and poor. Sant’Egidio is a lay organization that battles negative public sentiment to provide these people with the social services they desperately need. The services are not granted to them in the camps they are forced to live in by the government, which in turn has spurred ethic and religious conflicts within camp boundaries.

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    Amedeo Di Cori's photograph and the letters he sent from the Regano Coeli prison in Rome. | Photo by Aby Sam Thomas.

    Revealing Family Secrets

    Sara Terracina works as a tour guide in Rome’s Jewish Ghetto, explaining the history of the Jewish families there. But it was only in the past few months she learned more of her own family’s history — through a series of letters she rediscovers her uncle Amedeo, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945.

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    A long way from home: African refugees lost in Italy

    Stranded in Italy after leaving war-torn Libya, African refugees like Yeboah Emmanuel try to get by despite the lack of documents and the restrictions of a complicated legal limbo. Miles away from family and not sure about a place to call home, they depend on the kindness of strangers like the volunteers from a protestant organization in Rome.

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