"Violence by man against man is in contradiction with any religion worthy of that name," Francis said at Rome's Great Synagogue. The pontiff has a history of strong relationships with the Jewish ...

Today, the Great Synagogue in Rome, known as the Tempio Maggiore, continues the tradition of the Bnei Roma, and the same prayers are recited with few changes. In modern-day Rome, the ghetto has ...

Pope Francis crossed the Tiber River to visit Rome’s Great Synagogue Sunday. His 1.5-mile journey to the towering Tempio Maggiore shows that what was once unthinkable is now the norm.

Security has been boosted in the area of Rome's Great Synagogue and the city's Jewish ghetto in general, sources said on ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis is studying an invitation to visit the Grand Mosque of Rome — extended to him several days after his first visit to the city’s Great Synagogue. If he accepts ...

Rome, January 8 - Pope Francis' visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome on January 17 speaks to peace in the face of extremism, Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni told ANSA in an interview Friday.

The Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) across the Tiber looks old, but in fact it is a circa 1904 Greco-Babylonian pastiche. (Tours are available through the adjoining Jewish Museum of Rome ...

The Italian Jewish community marked 40 years since the 1982 terrorist attack at the Great Synagogue in Rome. During the attack by Palestinian Arab terrorists a two-year old boy was killed and 37 ...

If artifacts and radiocarbon determined when the synagogue was built, both methodologies did not solve another mystery: When the grand structure fell out of use or why. “We could not find any ...