Eusebio Kino, S.J., a ‘padre on horseback,’ moves closer to canonization
Among a number of holy men and women declared venerable by Pope Francis on July 10 was a Jesuit scholar and founder of more than 20 missions during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Eusebio Francesco Chini, S.J. In Mexico and the southwestern United States, he is best known as Padre Kino, an adaptation of his surname that he personally introd...
Avvisi di incarico per Addetto Scientifico presso l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington e i Consolati Generali di Boston e Houston
Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale ha pubblicato sei nuovi avvisi di incarico per esperto ex art. 168 D.P.R. 18/67 con funzioni di Addetto Scientifico, per la promozione della scienza e tecnologia italiana e dell’innovazione industriale presso le alcune Sedi diplomatiche italiane all’estero. Tra questi, tre avvisi...
Elena Delle Donne Gets Candid About Battle with Lyme Disease: 'I Take 64 Pills a Day'
Elena Delle Donne is speaking her truth and opening up about her battle with Lyme disease after she says that the WNBA and WNBPA's panel of physicians denied her request to sit out of the 2020 season for medical reasons. The Washington Mystics small forward, who has battled the disease since 2008, shared an open letter about her struggles with t...
2020 Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum Grant Awards Unveiled
On April 1, 2020 The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum Committee, along with its sponsors, the National Italian American Foundation and Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA), announced the postponement of the naming of the 2020 grant award recipients due to the health concerns relating to the coronavirus. The committee has decided t...
Debunking Snopes and the Imaginary Child Sex Slave Ring
I'm not one of those people always who opposes Snopes or Wikipedia. When they are right, they are right. However, when they are wrong, they are wrong; and Snopes is wrong with this one. In an article titled "Did Christopher Columbus Seize, Sell, and Export Sex Slaves?" Snopes claims it is true. Unfortunately for them, ALL the claims of the article...
Health Truths During an Age of Misinformation – Join us August 6 at 6 pm EST!
Learn tools to overcome fear and anxiety during the pandemic by joining us for this informative and uplifting webinar with Dr. John Rosa and Dr. Angelo Falcone. Thought leaders and experts in integrative medicine for more than 25 years, Dr. Rosa and Dr. Falcone have teamed up during the pandemic to combat the spread of misinformation and to help ed...
Referendum costituzionale ex Art. 138 della Costituzione indetto per il 20 e 21 settembre 2020. Modulo per l’opzione del voto in Italia
VOTO PER CORRISPONDENZA DEI CITTADINI ITALIANI RESIDENTI ALL’ESTERO. MODALITA' DI ESERCIZIO DEL DIRITTO DI OPZIONE PER IL VOTO IN ITALIA. Con decreto del Presidente della Repubblica del 17 luglio 2020, pubblicato nella Gazzetta Ufficiale del 18 luglio 2020, è stata fissata al 20-21 settembre 2020 la data del referendum confermativo popolare, origin...
What Columbus stands for
We’re roiled by a national protest on inequality, we’re dogged by a disease that is surging back and forcing millions onto unemployment rolls, and we’re watching in disbelief as agitators splinter away from a good and necessary cause to go off and topple statues of Christopher Columbus. You can support the destruction and vandalism of statues, or y...
IAP 151: From spumoni to the sprinkle room: Italians and the history of ice cream with special guest Nick Di Bona of bona Bona ice cream
I scream, you scream, we all scream for… gelato? Or is it ice cream? And what’s the difference anyway? How about we find out? In this week’s episode, we’re celebrating “National Ice Cream Day” with a look at how Italians all over the world have influenced that frozen treat we all know and love. From Ancient Rome to Marco Polo, from Sicily, to Engla...
Zac Efron's New Series Shines a Light on Sardinian Food
Actor Zac Efron stars with wellness expert, Darin Olien in new Netflix series, Down to Earth, that this week became one of the most viewed shows in the US. For this timely program, Zac and Darin travel the world in search of healthy lifestyles and habits that they can’t find in America. In episode four, the Californians jet off to Sardinia to m...
Paul Fusco, Compassionate Photographer Behind Famed RFK Funeral Train Series, Is Dead at 89
Paul Fusco, a member of the Magnum Photos collective who trained his eye on marginalized communities across the United States, died Wednesday. Magnum Photos confirmed the news in an obituary on its website. A representative for the collective said that Fusco died at 89 of dementia. “Magnum Photographers from across the generations remember [Fusco]...
“Cooking with Nonna” creator Rosella Rago
Proud of her dual Italian and American roots, Rosella Rago has made a career of deliciously blending the two with her beloved grandmother by her side. Rossella Rago, the culinary entrepreneur and host of the delightful instructional web series “Cooking with Nonna,” says her passion for food began just as you’d expect — when she was a little girl lo...