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Italian Family Minister endorses procession of reparation for Gay Pride ROME, May 31, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Italy’s Minister for the Family has openly endorsed a “Procession of Reparation to the Sacred Heart” being held in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday, June 1. The aim of the procession is to atone for a “gay pride” event being held in the city the same day. Asked about the event in a recent video interview, Lorenzo Fontana, Minister for the Family and vice-secretary for Italy’s Northern League party, said he “absolutely agrees” with the procession.  “I am happy that you all are doing this,...

---SNIP--- Mr Fontana's region, Lombardy in the north, is the leading destination for migrants in Italy. He reflected on this point. "We can't accept them all," he told Radio Padania, "Because if we had to accept them all, it would mean that we're no longer ourselves… as an ethnic fact. Because they outnumber us, because they are more determined than us to occupy this land." Mr Fontana, by now fully into his stride, reached his conclusion. "We need to decide whether or not our ethnic group, our white race, our society should continue to exist, or be wiped out. It's...

An Italian mayor has vowed to pay citizens €250 towards the cost of a gun after accusing the country's government of failing to protect 'honest Italians' with its 'jail-emptying laws'. Gianluca Buonanno, the Northern League mayor of Borgosesia in Piedmont, northern Italy, announced his plans for a new firearm fund on Facebook. He said he was doing so to allow people to 'defend themselves from delinquents, who the government is privileging'.

Umberto Bossi, the firebrand leader of Italy's opposition Northern League party, resigned yesterday (5 April) after allegations that taxpayers' money was used to pay for renovations at his villa and holidays for his children. He resigned to "better defend and protect the image of the movement and of his family in this delicate situation," the party said in a statement. The move, announced by the League after a meeting of its federal council in Milan, is likely to destabilise the populist, anti-immigration party, weakening one of the main political forces opposing Prime Minister Mario Monti's austerity programme in parliament. Earlier...

Italy is set to become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of the proposed legislation. MPs from the anti-immigration Northern League party, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling right wing coalition, have presented the proposal in a bill.

Italy's influential Northern League Party has stood out over the past decade for its particular knack in finding new (and not-so-new) ways of offending people based on country of origin and color of skin. In 2003, Umberto Bossi, founder of the party, which once espoused separatism, told an interviewer that police should open fire on the boatloads of undocumented Africans arriving on Italian shores, calling the would-be immigrants "bingo-bongos." Other Northern League pols have proposed everything from separate trains for immigrants to banning the building of new mosques and even prohibiting the serving of kebabs and other non-Italian food in...

Massimo D'Alema, the outgoing foreign minister, told Italian television: "I find the interference of a foreign country on the formation of the Italian government intolerable." Franco Frattini, the incoming foreign minister, also called for respect on internal decisions. In a newspaper interview published yesterday, he said: "It is up to us to understand the worries of governments and friendly people and listen to their advice. "But respecting decisions of those elected to the government by their people is a pillar of internal and international democracy." But Mr D'Alema said that Italy's Arab and Mediterranean partners were viewing the return of...

April 15, 2008 Berlusconi injects glamour into Cabinet, but fears raised over anti-immigrant party Richard Owen, Rome Silvio Berlusconi began building his new Government today after a sweeping victory in the Italian general election, but there were early concerns that his new administration will be beholden to the populist and stridently anti-immigrant Northern League. The League, which doubled its vote to more than 8 per cent, opposes Muslim immigration to defend the "Christian identity" of Italy and detests the European Union, whose officials were once called "filthy pigs" by the party’s unpredictable leader Umberto Bossi. Mr Berlusconi’s People of Liberty...

Silvio Berlusconi has won a crushing victory in the Italian general election to become prime minister for the third time. The 71-year-old media magnate defeated Walter Veltroni, the 52-year-old leader of the Democratic Party, by a considerable margin and has a large enough majority to rule Italy for a full five-year term. Mr Veltroni, who was a popular mayor of Rome before entering national politics, conceded defeat five hours after the polls closed, saying that the result was clear. "I have telephoned Mr Berlusconi to wish him well in the job," he said, adding that he was comforted that Italy...

My dear FRiends, I’ve something to say you about my Country. And it’s something really shameful if you consider that I love my Country as I’ve never loved nothing, nobody. (I wanna become an ambassador because of this great love I feel, I wanna serve Italy representing her all over the world: but there are times in which you can rest in silent on the shames of your beloved Land). The fact is that: there was an Islamic School in Milano and we closed it because it was illicit. After this school was closed on health and security grounds, some...

By next May, the latest possible date for Italy's forthcoming national election, the country's political landscape could look very different. For one thing a new law, strengthening the role of proportional representation in the voting system, may be in place. For another, the three main parties in Italy's ruling centre-right coalition, which has held power since June 2001, may have merged into a single, if loosely knit, movement. Most intriguingly of all, Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister who will turn 69 in September, may not even be the centre-right's candidate for premier. Italy's next election campaign will take place against...

A SENIOR Italian government adviser on labour relations was murdered by gunmen apparently opposed to his proposals to make it easier to sack workers. Marco Biagi, 52, an affable professor responsible for drafting the government's package of labour market reforms, was shot dead by two attackers while cycling home on Tuesday night in Bologna, the nerve-centre of the Italian far Left. The murder is the most dramatic evidence so far of the political tension welling up in Italy since the Right-wing government of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, took power last year, backed by the "post-fascist" National Alliance and the...

A senior minister in the Italian government said on Monday his remarks had been misinterpreted after he was quoted as saying the navy should fire on boats carrying illegal immigrants to Italy's shores.

Right-wing tide surges straight to the heart of EuropeBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 22/04/2002) EUROPE'S rising Right-wing tide swept into the core countries of the European Union yesterday, rocking Germany's Social Democrats and threatening France's socialist government.Over the last two years, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Portugal, and Norway have all turned against the centre-Left consensus that had such a lock on Europe during the 1990s, opting instead for law-and-order parties promising tax cuts, deregulation, and a much tougher line on immigrants.But the pace is now quickening as ever more radical figures build mass support, often outflanking the conventional centre-Right...