Wednesday Nov. 4th at 7pm you're cordially invited to the screening of "Capodarco e i Giovani: Prima del Futuro" (Capodarco and the Youth: Before the Future), the new documentary by Luca Guardabascio.At Christmastime in 1966, a small group of thirteen people with disabilities and a young priest, Don Franco Monterubbianesi, decided to star...

Three locals will be honored by the Italian-American Association at the 37th Annual Columbus Day Banquet on Sunday, Oct. 12 at Gennetti Hotel and Convention Center, Wilkes-Barre.   Those honored will be Person of the Year, attorney John Terrana, and the Lifetime Achievement Award, Lori Nocito. The Italian Heritage Award recipient will be Cha...

Vatican sources say the pope intends to visit Philadelphia, September 2015 during the Catholic church's World Meeting of Families, an international gathering that takes place every three years.   When Philadelphia was first announced as the site, Pope Benedict XVI he said he planned to attend. Speculation has been building as to if Francis w...

Italy, post-World War II, June 4, 1947, Casanova Straffora-a rural village in the province of Pavia. A 7 year-old Angela Volpini meets Mother Mary for the first time while she is playing on the hill with her friends.   The beautiful Lady tells Angela that she is "coming to teach the way to be happy in this world." This documentary describes...

AgustaWestland ha annunciato che lo stabilimento di Philadelphia ha consegnato il duecentesimo elicottero AW139, vero e proprio prodotto d'eccellenza della famiglia di elicotteri Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland, configurato in questo caso per i Vigili del Fuoco di Yokohama, in Giappone, cui era già stato consegnata una prima unità.   L'AW139 è l...

Please join the GACC Philadelphia, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the IACCGP and other international business organizations of the Philadelphia region for aTTIP Town Hall: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and Its Impact on Philadelphia.    A panel discussion featuring: Katherine KalutkiewiczAssociate Chief Negotiato...

The M.S.S. Lodge of Norristown will celebrate the feast of their patroness, Maria Santissima del Soccorso di Sciacca, on Sunday, Aug. 16 in air-conditioned Saviour Hall (formerly Monsignor Delia Hall), at Holy Savior Parish in Norristown.   The celebration, a 111-year-old tradition this year, was brought to the Borough of Norristown at the t...

Trefoil offers selections from the spectacular trecento style of 14th-century Italy. Music as described in Boccaccio's Decameron: Madrigals, ballate, canons, and estampie by Landini, Cicconia, and Jacopo di Bologna.   TREFOIL is a trio of modern minstrels long active in early music, with experience in such ensembles as Les Arts Florissants,...

By Kayleen Cubbal  When Oreste Piroli left his Naples, Italy, home in 1910, his mother, Maria, made a prediction. "I know I'll never see you again," Maria told her 16-year-old son. She was right. Oreste left to follow his father, Felice, an Italian farmer, to the land of opportunity, putting down stakes in Beaver County, where he we...

Mandy Gallo, a family and consumer science education major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from Indiana, has been selected for the Eleanor M. Gallati scholarship. Gallo, the daughter of Rich and Wendy Gallo, is a 2011 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School.   She has also received the M. Jane Segar Longenecker Scholarship, th...