Earlier this year, Lega Party leader Matteo Salvini warned that Islamization may “gain the upper hand” in Italy and that the country’s history and culture could be eradicated as a result. Efforts by a Muslim association to convert a former hospital chapel into a mosque in the northern Italian city of Bergamo have been blocked by the country’s right-wing Lega Party. The developments... 

A priest has shocked parishioners by welcoming them to church wearing a swastika armband. Fascist Father Angelo Idi, 51 – who once saw off a charity box thief with a truncheon at his church in Vigevano, Italy – confessed: “I am proud of my right wing beliefs. But people shouldn’t care about my politics, they should care about how good a priest I am.” In northern Italy...