The pope is expected to highlight the enduring religious traditions of the island as well as the ongoing deaths of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Pope Francis’ one-day visit to ...

AJACCIO, Corsica (AP ... promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishes the Mediterranean island from secular France as a bridge between religious and civic society.

If there's one thing the coastline of France has going for ... Yes No Sitting off the coast of Nice, the island of Corsica boasts 620 miles of Mediterranean Sea shoreline. Plage de Palombaggia ...

In Bali it's a water shortage, in Corsica it's a conflict over the ... Elsewhere on the same French island off the Mediterranean coast, a young man was shot to death in his car, his stepson ...

The remarks touched on a sensitive topic for France ... around the Mediterranean, from the Greek island of Lesbos to Malta and Sicily. But this is the first visit by a pope to Corsica, a French ...

Renè Colombani traveled with 2,000 others by ship from northern Corsica to Ajaccio, on the western coast, to see the pope. “It is an event that we will not see again in several years.

2024 Pope Francis completed a one-day trip to Corsica Sunday marked by cheering crowds and good humour in the French Mediterranean island, a stronghold of the Catholic faith. Around 9,000 turned ...