Category: Italy

Italy’s Mount Etna erupts in wild fashion, forces tourists to flee

TOPSHOT - Smoke rises from the crater of the Etna volcano as it erupts, on Mount Etna near Catania on June 2, 2025. A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on June 2, 2025, from Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, after a portion of its southeastern crater likely collapsed, authorities said. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO/AFP via Getty Images)
Smoke rises from the crater of the Etna volcano as it erupts, on Mount Etna near Catania on June 2, 2025. A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on June 2, 2025, from Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, after a portion of its southeastern crater likely collapsed, authorities said. (Photo by GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
3:02 PM – Monday, June 2, 2025

The highest active volcano in Europe erupted on Monday, sending tourists on Italy’s Mount Etna into a frenzy as they ran for safety with smoke and ash rising miles into the air.

Massive clouds of smoke and ash covered the sky around Sicily after the famous volcano began to explode overnight, causing nearby homes to shake.

The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Toulouse issued a “code red” Monday morning as volcanic ash began falling from the sky over the touristy area.

Additionally, the agency warned prior to the eruption that the volcano was experiencing “strong strombolian activity.”

Footage shared across social media showed visitors running down a path on the flank of the volcano when the lava first started to overflow.

According to the advisory center, ash plumes rose more than four miles into the sky.

According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the explosion happened due to part of the southeast crater collapsing, which caused hot lava flows.

This was also the 14th eruptive phase for the volcano based in Italy.

According to the INGV, the area of danger was limited to Etna’s summit, which was closed off to tourists as a precaution.

The president of Sicily, Renato Schifani, said it was “a phenomenon that we are following with extreme caution.”

Schifani also stated that the lava as of now “posed no danger to the population.”

However, tremors were still felt around the towns and villages that were near Mount Etna.

The nearby Catania airport raised their alert level due to the eruption, but no delays or interruptions were reported at the airport.

The volcano is almost 11,000 feet high and has a surface area of over 450 square miles, making it a popular tourist attraction.

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Italy: Catholic diocese urges Catholics to participate in Islamic prayers and iftar meals during Ramadan

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/03/italy-catholic-diocese-urges-catholics-to-participate-in-islamic-prayers-and-iftar-meals-during-ramadan; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Lord, what fools these Infidels be. My comments are below; I’m quoted in the article:

“Italian diocese urges Catholics to join Muslims for prayers and meals in Ramadan,” by Jules Gomes, Catholic Herald, March 8, 2024:

An Italian diocese is instructing its priests to participate in Islamic rituals, citing Pope Francis’ directives on interreligious dialogue.

The Diocese of Bergamo issued a communiqué on Monday urging priests to seek out opportunities for interreligious dialogue during the “holy month” of Ramadan by invite the faithful to join in praying with Muslims and joining in the Iftar ritual meal.

The letter from the northern Italian diocese asks the faithful to pray for “a continuous realisation of all the dimensions that make up humanity desired by the Creator” and for “continuous growth in the dialogue between peoples and different faiths.”

Fr Massimo Rizzi, director of the diocese’s Office for Interreligious Dialogue who signed the directive, upset local Catholics for dating the letter according to the Islamic calendar (23 Sha’ban 1445)….

In comments to the Catholic Herald, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer explained that “the idea of Ramadan providing a possibility of outreach to Muslims is a tragicomic display of the failures and inherent limitations of the ‘dialogue’ imperative”.

Spencer, author of over 23 books on Islam and the Middle East, said: “Ramadan is a month in which Muslims are to redouble their efforts to please Allah.

“The highest form of service to Allah, according to Muhammad, is jihad, which principally involves warfare against unbelievers.

“Every Ramadan, therefore, we see an increase in jihad attacks. The idea that this is a time to seek friendship and cooperation with Muslims is laughably naive and demonstrates abject ignorance of Islam.”

Responding to the diocesan letter’s plea for dialogue in the hope of resolving the Middle East crisis, Spencer pointed out that the Vatican has failed to address the clause in Hamas’ charter that threatens genocide against Israel.

In its preamble, the Hamas charter states, “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”….