Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has decided on Wednesday not to allow married men to be ordained as clergymen in remote areas, ignoring the calls of bishops in the Amazon region to ease restrictions in order to combat a severe shortage of priests

The meeting of Russian and Italian defense and foreign ministers in the "2+2" format will be held in Rome on February 18, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday

Europe should develop an emergency plan to evacuate migrants from the official reception centers in Libya, as the lives of the people there are in danger amid the ongoing civil war, Italian lawmaker Marco Minniti told Sputnik in an interview