There are wonderful places to swim in Lazio Here are the rankings for this year based on data collected over the four-year period 2021-2024 There are blue flags and“black flags,” which warn of health hazards to bathers due to poor water quality as Arpa Lazio reports,“quality is further improved compared to the previous assessment out of a total of 221 bathing areas.” only 1 percent of waters fall into the sufficient or poor category Recall that the rating levels are: excellent In the “poor” category we find one area in Pomezia and one in Terracina ARPA Lazio has already started the new controls starting April 1 and will continue until the end of September bathing has been banned on four beaches near ditches Italy (AP) — Moira Camila Garnica and a group of fellow migrant transgender women have been gathering at their parish church to pray for Pope Francis as he continues to battle pneumonia in a Rome hospital about an hour away from this modest seaside town Many grew up Catholic in Argentina like Francis and their prayers encompass gratitude for his outreach – several met him in person – as well as hope that the door he opened toward a doubly marginalized community will not be shut in the future “The biggest fear is that you never know how things will be in the future “We hope that the church will continue with this empathy because sometimes one person can take a big step forward and then others take three steps back.” Garnica and several other Latin American women most sex workers who have been in Italy for a couple of decades gathered for evening Mass in late February at the Blessed Immaculate Virgin Church medicine and basic financial assistance when  Italy’s strict COVID-19 lockdown rendered them unable to work invited them to write letters to Francis outlining their needs The Vatican’s almoner office not only provided money but brought a few dozen of them to the Vatican for vaccines some were invited to a lunch for the poor with the pope it was important that Pope Francis got inside the mind of transgender women in the mind of the human beings that we are and that I think is the moment when faith or Christianity could embrace us,” said Carla Segovia left her native Argentina as a college student during its financial crisis more than 20 years ago She has been working as a prostitute since she started to pay for her gender surgeries as a youth and calls the violence and discrimination she has faced a tough test of “your potential to survive.” she said she wants to “transmit to him our strength the same thing that he brought to us in the difficult time of the pandemic We want to inoculate him with this strength that is so crucial – the fact that you need to fight for your life.” Gender transition is a  controversial issue in many countries including the United States and  immigration is also roiling politics  on both sides of the Atlantic But Francis has made inclusion a hallmark of his papacy; specifically for trans people to be baptized as Catholics  and serve as godparents Segovia and other women in their community were involved in the church as children but later felt their identity and work pushed them away – until they came to the Torvaianica parish’s food distribution site “The word-of-mouth was that this church welcomed you and I came to ask for help because I felt so alone.” a Peruvian 54-year-old who asked only her professional name be used her voice shaking with emotion as she recounted how the experience changed her life in town he provided a support so big that still today he’s helping us,” Minerva said At the beginning even here people didn’t pay attention to us helping this group of women is perfectly in line with the model of an open church reaching out to the margins that Francis has promoted as well as the pope’s famous “ who am I to judge”  approach to LGBTQ+ issues a person’s life and their story … a person is never what they do.” as well as its concrete welcome for this group of women can help abolish prejudices that religious people hold – since it’s possible the women’s clients might include people who attend Mass who often are rejected by their own families it’s a moment of grace that went straight to the heart “A trans girl would have never imagined in her life that she could see the pope receive her “Already here people mistreat you for being Latin American people understood that we also have a heart Minerva was a First Communion catechist in her parish in Peru until she said she was kicked out for her identity she practiced singing a Spanish-language version of “Amazing Grace” in hopes of joining the local choir is about coming out of the shadows and into the light I am church because each one of us is church,” she said Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US The AP is solely responsible for this content From left to right: Transgenders Camila Romero and Carla Segovia talk in the sacristy of the Beata Vergine Immacolata parish church in Torvaianica and Minerva sit inside Beata Vergine Immacolata parish church in Torvaianica with members of a group of transgender women he accompanied at a lunch for the poor with Pope Francis Priest Andrea Conocchia in the sacristy of the Beata Vergine Immacolata parish church in Torvaianica Claudia Vittoria Salas from Argentina and Carla Segovia from Argentina as they sit in the Beata Vergine Immacolata parish church in Torvaianica Transgender Moira Camila Garnica poses for a portrait outside the Beata Vergine Immacolata parish church in Torvaianica In the race to bring automotive manufacturing back home the most manual and unpredictable stage of vehicle production automating moving lines was considered nearly impossible The new Inbolt and FANUC integration changes that allowing the CRX cobot and other FANUC robot models to operate with real-time 3D vision and adaptive trajectory correction even with part variation or imperfect environments View the 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Significantly lowering the barriers to high-performance automation this integration eliminates the need for specialized lighting or custom jigs making it easier to deploy robots in complex A single robot can now handle over 100 part models with real-time accuracy Deployment is streamlined through Inbolt Studio an intuitive platform that allows users to import CAD files and launch the program directly on the line The solution is available immediately for FANUC CRX models and industrial robots with Stream Motion Inbolt delivers the intelligence layer for industrial robot guidance combining real-time 3D vision and AI to automate unpredictable manufacturing environments and accelerating the path to autonomous factories FANUC America Corporation is a subsidiary of FANUC CORPORATION in Japan FANUC’s innovative technologies and proven expertise help manufacturers in the Americas maximize productivity FANUC America has facilities throughout North and South America Visit www.fanucamerica.com for more information or explore the CRX line of cobots at CRX.FANUCAmerica.com allowing FANUC robots to operate with real-time 3D vision and adaptive trajectory correction Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Pope Francis seated across from Claudia Vittoria Salas who is part of the transgender community in the town of Torvaianica Pope Francis welcomed a group of transgender women with whom he has formed an ongoing relationship to a luncheon at the Vatican last week marking the church’s World Day of the Poor Some 1,200 people who live in poverty or are unhoused joined Francis for a meal inside the papal audience hall, at tables reminiscent of the Synod assembly held in that same space last month. The Associated Press reported on one notable group of luncheon guests: trans women from just outside Rome many of whom are sex workers and migrants from Latin America: “Thanks to the local parish priest [in the Italian town of Torvaianica] these women now make monthly visits to Francis’ Wednesday general audiences the Vatican bussed them into its health facility so they could be vaccinated ahead of most Italians they saw us as the devil,’ said Andrea Paola Torres Lopez a Colombian transgender woman known as Consuelo whose kitchen is decorated with pictures of Jesus ‘Then Pope Francis arrived and the doors of the church opened for us.’ Part of what Pope Francis to open those doors was a recent guidance from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith which said trans people could be accepted for baptism and serve as godparents The trans women of Torvaianica were likewise grateful: being a godparent is the closest thing she will ever get to having a child of her own She said that the new norms made her feel more comfortable about maybe one day returning fully to the faith that she was baptized in but fell away from after coming out as trans “‘This norm from Pope Francis brings me closer to finding that absolute serenity,’ she said which she feels is necessary to be fully reconciled with the faith a 55-year-old transgender tailor and house cleaner said she had already served as a godparent to three of her nieces and nephews back home in Jujuy She choked up as she recalled that her earnings from her former work as a prostitute put her godchildren through school.” The relationship between Pope Francis and this group of trans women dates to 2020, when they sought help from Fr. Andrea Conocchia because they could not work due to the pandemic. As Bondings 2.0 reported previously Conocchia and the women asked the pope for assistance which the town’s small parish could not fully provide “‘The pages of the letters of the first four were bathed in tears,’ he recalled and the first assistance arrived from the pope’s chief almsgiver who then accompanied the women for their COVID-19 vaccines a year later many of the women weren’t legally allowed to live in Italy and had no access to the vaccine.” Reuters posted a video interview with several of the women, who talk movingly about Pope Francis’ impact on their lives, which is available here In related news, the pope commented on how LGBTQ+ issues arose at the Synod assembly last month. An interviewer with Italian broadcaster RAI asked Francis if he was satisfied how gay people were discussed, to which the pontiff replied: everyone grows and matures in their Christian belonging It’s true that today it’s a bit fashionable to talk about this Last week’s luncheon for the World Day of the Poor shows how Pope Francis’ desire for a welcoming church goes beyond words And his actions to include everyone do have a meaningful impact as the testimonies of the trans women in Torvaianica show that we’re on Earth and we haven’t been abandoned and left to the mercy of the wind.'” Reuters, “Italy’s transgender women thank pope for making them feel ‘more human‘” Bless Pope Francis’s wonderful old heart It is truly wonderful and gratifying that we finally have a Pope who shows the compassion and respect that is the hallmark of Christianity; what is sad is that we should be amazed and surprised when a pope — the supposed leader of the Church finally comes around to where the laity have been for years and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Suite C1-310 Danforth AveToronto ON M4K 1N6Canada Many of the women are sex workers and have been left with no income due to the COVID-19 pandemic Pope Francis supported a small transgender community near Rome some of whose members have been struggling financially due to the coronavirus pandemic Andrea Conocchia has turned his parish into a haven for about 20 transgender women most of them from Latin America and between the ages of 30 and 50 It all started two weeks ago, when a trans woman asked Conocchia for help near the entrance to his parish of the Blessed Virgin of the Immaculate He gifted her food and basic supplies from the care packages of the Catholic charity Caritas “What was important to me was the open door of the parish church listening and accepting the person that I had truly and concretely in front of me,” Conocchia told Religion News Service in a phone interview on Thursday (April 30) Many of the women are sex workers and have been left with no income to pay rent or bills since Italy enacted a national quarantine in early March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic Some of the women are HIV positive or have sexually transmitted diseases Conocchia was unable to offer the women enough financial support so he suggested they send a message to Pope Francis asking for help Francis showed his support through the papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski the administrator of the pope’s charitable work who wired money to the transgender community late last week “What a great answer by the Holy Father!” Conocchia said “It gave us the chance to give concrete help for their needs.” The priest reached out to the pope knowing his concern for “the most in need This is how the Church is a field hospital.” Pope Francis has been welcoming toward transgender people; he met in a private audience with a trans man and his wife in 2015 “I would say that we treat these (transgender) people as if they were invisible,” Conocchia said they might have never asked for help in a church and maybe we wouldn’t have had the chance to dialogue The women sent an audio message to the papal almoner for Pope Francis Pope Francis,” “May God bless you,” “Thank you for everything,” “A thousand blessings,” “May the Virgin protect you,” are but a sample of the recordings sent some have asked him to pray with them or to bless some of their sentimental objects He said one knelt before the statue of the Virgin Mary in his parish and prayed the rosary Conocchia said he has learned to “not be judgmental which is important for a man of faith and of the church.” Getting time with Conocchia is not easy these days He had to interrupt several calls to tend to the people coming to his parish for help including two Muslim immigrants from Morocco who asked for some pasta and rice but also a social emergency,” the priest said “Let’s try not to turn it into a human emergency the papal almoner seemed surprised the pope’s help for the transgender community had garnered so much attention This is how the Church is a field hospital,” Krajewski said “They are really in difficulty because sometimes their passports were taken away by the mafia pimps who control them,” he added Conocchia praised Pope Francis for “his attention and sensibility” and the women for “having the courage to ask for help from the parish.” Through these actions the church “widens” and is able to include and welcome through a focus on the human person “This is the heart of the heart of the gospel,” he said “From the heart of Jesus comes mercy through concrete actions toward every one of us Hillhurst United now draws hundreds every week Banned for life from the Ontario legislature's public gallery for his protest Jeffrey Dale is an outspoken advocate for safe-consumption sites I hadn't seen this on the mainstream news sites Marvin Morgan spoke to Broadview as the rally's organizers face a civil trial There's more than one way to show respect for the 215 children whose remains were found on the Kamloops For many of the 6.7 million Canadians affected by mental illness Orientalist ideas are so pervasive that we internalize them without necessarily being conscious of it Thousands seek shelter in churches and Out of the Cold programs but long-term solutions are not on the table Carabinieri of the Provincial Command in Rome have arrested the person who gave the order for the killing of the Albanian Selavdi Shelaj on September 20 2020. Execution of the Albanian took place on the seashore in the area of ??Torvajanica and Giuseppe Molisso was put in handcuffs as the person who ordered it. Molisso is in prison because he is considered the mastermind of the double assassination attempt on the Costantino brothers that took place on July 13 2021 in the Alessandrino district. According to the investigators is attributed to an action of a revenge character after the November 14 ambush three years ago against Leandro Bennato a subject who is believed to be close to Molisso. At the request of DDA prosecutors the prosecution issued a detention order for Giuseppe Molisso who is 40 years old and of Neapolitan origin while he is already detained for another criminal case. The arrest warrant has also been issued for Guido Cianfroça a serious suspect for finding the murder weapon. However while the perpetrators of the assassination were arrested on December 17 of last year. They are Enrico Bennato and the Argentine Raul Esteban Calderon Accusations for the murder of the ultras of Lazio are already weighing on the latter. On its part Italian media reported in 2020 that the 38-year-old Albanian Selavdi Shehaj did not manage to survive 4 days after the assassination attempt on Torvaianica beach near Rome. Shehaj was shot by two masked men while he was on the beach and at that moment he was cleaning the embankment of the canal near the factory. The two perpetrators approached on scooters and one of them shot Shehaj twice in the back He was immediately transported to the hospital where in a difficult 4-hour operation they removed the bullets. The Italian media wrote that Selavdi Shehaj had a criminal record for drug trafficking and was known for his connections with the former Lazio fan captain Plenary Session Terminated after Tensions in Assembly Hall Opposition MPs Climbed through Windows to Enter Assembly Offices Tirana-Besiktas Match Suspended Due to Incidents Strong Security Measures for Bill Clinton's Visit in Tirana DP Accuses PM of Ignoring Albanians Living in Survival Conditions Pope Francis blesses an ambulance entrusted to the Office of Papal Charities on May 31 VATICAN— Pope Francis’ charity brought free flu vaccines and coronavirus tests to homeless people living in a town outside Rome on Wednesday The Vatican ambulance carried the medical supplies to the small seaside town of Torvaianica located outside the wider metropolitan area of Rome health staff from the papal charity office administered the flu shots and COVID-19 tests to 35 people in the courtyard in front of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Parish Those who received the help were mostly immigrants from Argentina who do not have access to regular medical services Torvaianica is marked by poverty and homelessness and some of the people who received help Dec 2 engage in prostitution on the town’s beachfront said that this may have been the first time they had “received such concrete and effective attention on the part of the Church.” because it was illuminated and warmed by the presence of friends who arrived in the Vatican ambulance.” “People are happy for this closeness attention and care,” the priest added They are really very content and very happy” to receive help sent money to a group of transgender prostitutes in Torvaianica who were facing homelessness and had asked for assistance from the local parish Krajewski sent money for them to cover their rent and bills until Italy’s nationwide lockdown ended in May has been helping the poor and homeless around Rome by handing out meals and protective gear such as face masks The office has also donated ventilators to hospitals in Italy bishops and other members of the Papal Chapel which assists the pope during liturgical ceremonies inviting them to make a financial offering to support those suffering during the pandemic The cardinal told CNA that some officials had given the equivalent of a month’s salary while others had donated two months’ worth of their earnings He praised the “heartfelt response,” which he said “exceeded all of our thoughts.” One of Italy's most dangerous fugitives has been captured at a party while another mobster was arrested while shopping in a supermarket was sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking 18 months ago and was on the interior ministry's "100 most dangerous fugitives" list A powerful member of a clan in the notorious Scampia neighbourhood of the southern Italian city he had been "a ghost" who "escaped handcuffs for a year and a half" But after establishing he would be at a party in a social housing complex on Wednesday night some 250 policemen surrounded the block so that "no-one could get in or out" had to leave his friends and relatives just after the cake was cut," police said police nabbed a 52-year-old man who was sentenced in November to over 20 years in prison for mafia association and arms and drugs dealing "was spotted in the Lazio region while shopping at a supermarket and was immediately arrested" He had been "a leading organised crime figure in (the southern region of) Salento in the first decade of the 2000s" please register for free or log in to your account.