ITALY
(See also Italian [Language]; Rome [Modern City]; Vatican)
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
abortions: w90 11/15 28; g86 7/8 29
agriculture:
fruit-picking robot: g94 7/8 29
soil loss: g86 9/22 10
alcoholic beverages:
consumption: g88 9/8 29-30
animals:
endangered species recover: g96 3/22 28
marmot: g03 1/8 15-17
Appian Way: bt 212; it-1 130, 1118; w10 1/1 11; w06 10/15 14, 16-17; w04 12/15 16
photo: w88 5/1 28
Three Taverns: it-2 1096; w04 12/15 16-17
art:
alabaster carving: g02 10/22 25-27
cameos: g01 11/22 15-17
Florentine mosaics: g 12/08 16-17
Moses depicted with horns: w90 3/15 7
red coral jewelry: g02 11/22 18
theft of treasures: g94 1/8 28
automobiles:
pollution from: g96 12/22 28
profanity in traffic: g99 5/8 29
speeding fines: g87 4/8 30
time spent in traffic: g98 6/22 28
traffic accidents: g88 1/22 30
Bari: g01 7/8 18-19
bicycles: g 10/13 3
buildings:
seismically unsafe: g97 12/22 29
bureaucratic language simplified: g94 8/8 29
business:
national exhibition of religious products: w89 12/15 29
religious businesses: g94 9/8 29
religious tourism: g95 4/8 28
catacombs: g95 8/8 16-20
Catholic Church:
1985 synod: g86 7/8 11-14
1987 synod: g88 8/22 26-27
1991 synod: g92 7/8 26-27
1994 synod: g94 12/22 18-19
abortion position repudiated by Italians: w90 11/15 28
animals blessed: g93 8/22 29
anti-Witness stickers: jv 512; w90 1/1 26; w87 5/1 21
archives of Roman Inquisition made accessible (1998): g98 12/8 12-13
Banco Ambrosiano scandal: re 264; w88 1/15 19
Bible knowledge of priests: g04 7/8 28-29
bishop blesses stadium: g95 6/8 28-29
bishop recommends home visits: g 1/13 3
business involvement: re 264
campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses: jv 512; w86 12/15 18; g86 2/22 31
capitalizes on euro: g02 8/22 29
cardinal comments on state of Catholic Church: g 8/13 3
cathedral in Milan: g01 7/22 24-25
Christmas: w15 12/1 15; w07 12/15 8-9
churches for sale: g93 9/8 29
concern over Witnesses’ growth: g89 6/22 29; g89 12/8 28
confessionals in bookstores: g96 11/22 28
decline: g88 8/22 29; tp 81-82
dress requirements for visiting holy places: g99 2/8 28
interdenominational prayers for peace, Assisi (2002): g02 10/22 4-8
Lateran Treaty (1929): re 262
legislators press for ability to prosecute Holy See: w88 1/15 19
membership can be canceled (2002): g03 9/8 28
non-sacred use of Mass wine: g94 2/8 28
percentage obeying birth-control prohibition: g89 9/22 23
priest has sex-change surgery: g88 3/8 30
priestly corruption: g92 12/8 31
priests ask to use grape juice in Mass: g90 4/22 28
priest shortage: g01 4/22 29; g99 9/22 28-29
relations with Mafia: g95 1/8 25
Rome conference of rebel archbishop Lefebvre (1977): g87 12/22 5-6
supports invasion of Ethiopia (Abyssinia, 1935-1936): re 262
unofficial exorcisms: w89 4/15 27
“World Day of Prayer for Peace,” Assisi (1986): re 249-251; w88 1/15 13; w88 12/15 21, 23; g87 3/22 29; g87 6/8 2-10
writers publish answers to fake confessions: g94 3/22 29
young women disagree with church’s position on sex: g94 9/8 28
youths preach, mistaken for Jehovah’s Witnesses: g 5/07 11
children:
babies abandoned: g96 7/22 29
happiness: g02 7/8 29
missing: g93 10/22 29
parents playing with: g 11/13 3
six-year-old ignored by motorists: g90 12/8 29
TV dependency: g97 3/8 28
women waiting till later in life: g04 10/8 28-29
world’s lowest fertility rate: g94 3/8 28
Civitavecchia:
Madonna ‘weeps blood’: g98 3/8 31; g96 6/8 28-29
Colosseum: g91 4/8 24-27
efforts to preserve: g93 2/8 28
exhibition of modern parallels to gladiatorial fights: w02 6/15 29
exhibition on ancient Greek games: w04 5/1 27-30
monument to destruction of Jerusalem (70 C.E.): g96 2/22 31
courts:
compensation for damage from infected blood: g99 9/8 28
compensation for damage from passive smoking: g91 10/8 29
surgeon guilty for operating without consent: g91 4/8 28
crime: g97 8/8 28; g96 10/8 4; g92 4/22 29; g91 7/8 28
counterfeit Ferraris: g94 1/22 28
fraud: g97 9/22 7-10
Mafia: g97 3/8 5, 9
thief turns self in: g94 1/8 32
unpunished thieves: g96 6/22 29
description: it-1 1236; g 1/14 14-15
divine name:
cathedral with: g01 7/22 25
church with: g88 4/22 19
comments by Professor Umberto Eco: g88 4/22 19
petition to publishing houses to stop using: w87 2/15 21
divorce fair: g 3/11 29
drug abuse: g 5/06 14; g04 6/8 29
early Christians: it-1 1236-1237; w05 6/15 13
Aquila and Priscilla: it-1 1236
Paul: it-1 1236-1237
ecology:
desertification: g98 5/8 28-29
endangered species: g98 1/8 28
Etruscans: g97 11/8 24-27
belief in torment after death: w89 10/1 5
families: g04 6/22 28-29; g96 6/22 29
Fascism: g90 10/22 24-27
food:
big eaters: g87 7/22 30
pizza: g 1/09 26-27
spaghetti recipes: g86 1/8 25-27
truffles: g87 6/8 14-16
forgetfulness: g98 10/8 28
fruits:
bergamot citrus: g 6/07 24-25
lemon: g 9/12 28-29
Sicilian blood orange: g01 2/8 16-17
gambling: g87 9/8 12-14
glass: g04 5/22 16-18
government:
Lateran Treaty with Catholic Church (1929): re 262
number since World War II: re 106
treaty granting immunity to Vatican bank officials: w88 1/15 19
Gran Paradiso National Park: g89 6/22 4
health and disease:
allergies: g97 8/22 28
leprosy: g93 8/22 29
prostitutes distribute AIDS prevention pamphlet: g87 4/8 29
syphilis: g05 8/8 29
hunters losing favor: g87 6/8 29
libraries:
Ambrosian Library: w06 2/15 13-14; g01 7/22 25; si 302
thefts from: g94 12/22 29
maps: w11 7/15 22-23; w05 6/15 13; w05 12/15 13; g01 7/8 14; g01 7/22 24
Appian Way: it-1 130
Mt. Etna (Sicily): g05 9/8 15
Venice: g05 3/22 16
marble:
Carrara and Pietrasanta: g04 9/22 23-25
Matera cave dwellings: w98 5/15 32; g97 7/8 16-19
Matterhorn: g96 2/8 16-19
medicine:
allergy to pasta: g91 4/8 29
cesarean sections: g95 4/22 28
informed consent for blood transfusions decreed: g91 8/22 28
informed consent for blood transfusions upheld: g02 3/22 29; w96 11/15 24
premature babies benefit from mother’s voice: g 12/15 14
surgeon guilty for operating without consent: g91 4/8 28
surgery by robots: g93 5/22 29
Milan: g01 7/22 24-27
Ambrosian Library: w06 2/15 13-14; g01 7/22 25; si 302
La Scala opera house: g01 7/22 26; g94 7/8 24-25
Mont Blanc: g 4/10 22-25
Monte Forato: w98 1/15 32
monuments:
structural dangers: g89 8/22 29
Mt. Etna: g05 9/8 14-17
Mt. Vesuvius: g 2/07 14-16
eruption (79 C.E.): w03 1/1 8; w93 3/1 3
Murano: g04 5/22 16-18; g95 11/22 26
name: it-1 1236
Pavia:
collapse of bell tower: g89 8/22 29
Pescara:
stadium blessed: g95 6/8 28-29
Pisa:
Leaning Tower of: g00 9/22 29; g97 12/8 28; g89 8/22 29; g87 3/8 30
Polo, Marco: g04 6/8 23-27
Pompeii: g99 12/22 22; g97 5/22 30; g96 9/8 22-25; w93 3/1 3
population:
decline: g87 3/8 30
emigrants to Switzerland: yb87 183
reading:
negative attitude toward: g96 9/8 29
religion:
Bible codices by Flavius Cassiodorus and Ceolfrith (6th-7th centuries): w01 5/1 29-30
Bible ignorance: g92 5/8 28; g91 7/22 29
Bible translations: w05 12/15 13-16
decline: g 2/07 4-5; g97 12/8 29; g90 6/8 28; g89 5/22 29
first mosque in Rome: g90 1/22 29
fraud: g97 9/22 9-10
images punished: w88 8/1 3
man refuses to pray to statue made from unproductive pear tree: g88 7/22 18
national exhibition of religious products: w89 12/15 29
petition to publishing houses to stop using “Jahweh”: w87 2/15 21
Reformation: w87 10/1 24
survey on value of “World Day of Prayer for Peace,” Assisi (1986): g87 6/8 10
tourism: g95 4/8 28
Trinity representations: ti 10
Rome: g01 7/8 14-17; g94 3/8 23
air pollution: g96 12/22 28
Arch of Titus: wp18.2 8-9; it-2 536, 752; g 4/11 13; si 336-337
a world center of false religion: w88 12/15 20-21
brutality during Reformation: w87 10/1 24
demonism: g92 8/22 29
first mosque: g90 1/22 29
personal firearms: g91 7/22 29
priests decry Witness growth: g89 6/22 29; g89 12/8 28
statues being replaced by copies: g98 8/8 28
Trevi Fountain: g 8/07 15
science:
invention of radio (Marconi): g96 10/8 19-20
Second International Congress of Human Paleontology (Turin): w88 4/15 21
Similaun Man: g95 5/8 3-9
Sicily:
life story of associate of Salvatore Giuliano: g96 6/22 18-23
sports violence:
efforts to stem: g89 11/8 5
suicide increase: g89 5/8 29
television: g97 12/22 28
“TV bulimia”: g94 6/8 29
terrorism: g86 6/22 4
tipping: g86 6/22 26
tourism:
manners for tourists: g98 1/22 28
trulli (ancient buildings): g01 7/8 19
Turin: g01 7/22 26-27
Shroud of Turin: ijwbq article 148; g01 7/22 27; g98 12/22 23-24; w89 1/15 30
Vagnari:
ancient skeleton of East Asian origin: w11 1/1 29
Val Camonica:
rock engravings: g02 4/22 26-27
Vatican City: g 1/14 15
St. Peter’s Basilica: it-1 181
Sistine Chapel: it-1 181
Venice: g05 3/22 16-19
flood control: g04 8/8 29
gondolas: g 5/07 23-25; g02 2/8 28
seaweed problem: g93 1/22 29
Volterra:
alabaster carving: g02 10/22 25-27
war:
Ethiopia (1935-1936): re 262; g87 4/8 17, 19
World Cup soccer (1990): g91 5/8 10-12
World War II: g87 4/8 21
Allies invade Italy: g87 5/8 18
effect on civilian: g89 10/8 6
North Africa: g87 4/22 17-18
youths:
crime increase: g92 4/22 29
cyberbullying: g 1/14 7
drugs: g04 6/8 29
violence: g89 7/22 28
young women disagree with Catholic Church’s position on sex: g94 9/8 28
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Assembly Halls: w05 6/15 15; yb96 26; yb95 25; yb94 18; jv 330; yb90 9; w86 1/1 17
Bethel family: lfs articles 5, 15; w11 7/15 21
Bethel family member disabled: g94 1/22 30
blood issue:
experience: w88 5/1 17
parents imprisoned on charge of murder: w13 6/15 5; jv 184
wife exonerated of husband’s death: w96 11/15 24
branch office: jv 378-379
oversees Albania (1996): yb97 31
Rome (1982): yb87 8-9
Catholic concern over growth: g89 6/22 29; g89 12/8 28
children reach service goals: yb91 8
clergy commendation:
Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica: w94 4/15 15
parish magazine: w92 6/1 19; w87 8/15 13
priest: w86 11/1 15
priest praises convention: yb92 19-20, 23
clergy opposition: w11 7/15 21-22; jv 493, 666
anti-Witness stickers: jv 512; w90 1/1 26; w87 5/1 21
Catholic campaign against: jv 512; w86 12/15 18; g86 2/22 31
priest organizes prayers against: yb90 52
commendation:
bus driver: w10 11/15 21
Il Tempo: w02 11/1 12-13
Internet consulting firm praises jw.org: yb17 41-43
letter from Catholic: w97 7/1 32
L’Unità: g 8/10 4
mayor of Faenza: w97 5/1 6
Minister for Social Solidarity: g00 8/22 32
nursing magazine: w04 6/15 28
press: w98 5/15 32; w96 9/1 32; jv 179, 195; w91 2/1 21
television: g88 1/22 21-22
comments by professor of history of Christianity: g95 2/22 31
congregations: w11 7/15 21; w10 12/15 27; jv 501
first: jv 406
conventions: w10 12/15 29; yb02 7-8; w98 5/15 32; jv 493; yb92 19-20, 23; w90 1/15 29; yb90 13; yb89 14
Milan (1947): w11 7/15 21
Milan (1957): jv 493
quotes: g88 1/22 19; g86 12/22 25
Rome (1969): jv 493
court cases:
priest and lawyer found guilty of libel (1997): w98 8/15 31
deaf field: w05 6/15 14-15; w04 1/1 17
early witnessing: lfs article 15; jv 409
emigrants return with truth: jv 429
field ministry: jv 512
hours since 1946: jv 379
Gilead attendees: w11 7/15 22
growth: w10 12/15 29; w05 6/15 13-17; jv 493-494, 512; yb90 52; w87 1/1 5
since New World Translation: jv 612-613
honesty: w87 1/1 5; w86 11/15 12
Kingdom Halls: w05 12/1 15-16; yb95 23; yb90 9
former electrical substation (Pistoia): g 10/07 21
legal recognition (1986): g87 2/22 29
Ministerial Training School: yb92 11, 13
minority-language field: w15 9/15 2; g 1/14 15; w10 12/15 30; yb07 20; w05 6/15 14; w04 1/1 17
Ukrainian woman mistaken for another: yb09 58-59
missionaries: w11 7/15 21; w10 12/15 26-30; w96 8/1 22-24; jv 493, 530, 533
modern history:
Turin and Milan: g01 7/22 27
opposition: w10 12/15 27
anti-Witness stickers: w00 5/15 32
persecution: jv 442-443
Nazi era: w05 6/15 32
persons:
Abbatemarco, Francesco: g 8/06 20-22
Artusi, Vincenzo: lfs article 15
Benanti, Charles (Carlo) and Constance (Costanza): w11 7/15 21; w05 12/1 13-17
Bentivogli, Irma: lfs article 15
Brandolini, Vera: w92 8/1 26-27
Caparelli, Antonio and Dorina: lfs article 5
Chiozzi, Paola: g 1/13 6-7
Cuminetti, Albina: lfs article 15
Cuminetti, Remigio: jv 191-192
Fraese, Vito and Fern: w10 12/15 26-30
Fredianelli, George: w11 7/15 21; jv 533
Gatti, Piero and Lidia: lfs articles 5, 15; w11 7/15 20-23
Malaspina, Francis and Gloria: w95 1/1 20-21, 23
Mannino, Franck: g97 3/22 30; g96 6/22 18-23
Martinelli, Marcello: w11 7/15 21
Matheakis, Anna: w05 7/1 11-12
Meyer, Doris: lfs article 15
Moussanett, Lucia: g03 6/22 18-22
Piccioli, Paolo and Elisa: w13 6/15 3-6
Pizzato, Maria: lfs article 15; w11 7/15 21
Polotti, Ruggero: w89 8/1 30-31
Riet, Narciso: w05 6/15 32
Romano, Joseph (Giuseppe) and Angelina: w11 7/15 21
Sordelli, Edvige: g92 6/22 12-14
Tistarelli, Massimo: g 2/13 10-11
Tubini, Giuseppe: w11 7/15 20-22
Weber, Adolf: jv 409
pioneers: w87 5/15 27
special pioneers: w13 6/15 3
Pioneer Service School: jv 300
places:
Brescia: w05 12/1 16
Cernobbio: w05 6/15 32
Cremona: lfs article 15
Faenza: lfs article 15
Florence: w10 12/15 27-28
Genoa: w05 12/1 16-17
Lucca: yb87 185
Milan: w05 12/1 15-16; g01 7/22 27; w96 8/1 22-23; yb87 140-141
Naples: w10 12/15 26-28
Parma: yb87 184
Perugia: lfs article 5
Pescara: lfs article 5
Rome: w15 9/15 2; w96 8/1 24
Terni: lfs article 5
Trieste: w96 8/1 23-24
Turin: w10 12/15 27-28; g01 7/22 27
Verona: w96 8/1 24
Viterbo: lfs article 5
printing: jv 378-379; yb87 8-9
presses: jv 587
publications:
Bible New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures: w05 12/15 16; g03 9/8 22; km 6/96 7; jv 612-613; km 2/88 7; km 4/88 3; km 12/88 8; km 9/87 3
booklet The Kingdom, the Hope of the World: jv 443; yb87 140-141
distribution: jv 512
magazine The Watchtower: lfs article 15
tract Ecclesiastics Indicted: jv 427
relief work:
earthquake (1980): jv 312
earthquake (1997): w02 1/15 32
flood (2000): w02 1/15 32
Soviet Union countries (1991-1992): w93 2/1 24
robbers change mind: yb06 63-64
service experiences: g94 4/22 32; g93 8/22 32; w92 1/1 6-7; w91 1/1 5; w91 2/1 30; w91 3/1 14; w90 1/1 26; w90 12/1 20; yb90 51-52; w89 8/1 30-31; w89 9/1 10; yb89 12-13; w87 5/15 26-27; w87 12/1 21
attempt to return lost wallet: w96 9/1 32
beach witnessing: yb97 45
Bible study on phone: yb05 57-58
biochemist accepts truth: g 1/13 6-7
conduct of Witnesses at conventions: w97 3/1 8
convention invitation found at door: yb14 73
drug dealer: w05 9/15 8-9
eight-year-old gets chocolate for literature: yb13 67
fearful widow: yb10 9
gang member: w14 7/1 8-9
headmistress distributes Kingdom News No. 34: yb96 6-7
hounded Witnesses return on rainy days: w95 8/1 29
householder with angry pig: yb10 60-61
husband’s opposition overcome: w87 5/1 21
illiterate shepherd: yb02 57-58
immigrant field: w05 6/15 14; w00 1/15 30-31
kindness and perseverance: yb00 59-60
letter to brusque widower: yb11 65-66
Memorial invitation campaign: yb08 13
mistaken identity results in Bible study: yb09 58-59
mother superior distributes Kingdom News No. 34: yb96 7
nuns: w00 1/15 31; w99 1/1 19; yb99 18
Organization video in school: w98 10/15 32
President Sandro Pertini receives witness: w11 7/15 23
priest accepts truth: g 2/15 12-13
prisons: w05 6/15 15-17; w00 1/1 4-5
professor of robot design: g 2/13 10-11
Stand Firm video in school: g99 11/22 31
wife won over: w88 11/1 7
Young People Ask book in school: g 10/08 32
serving where need is greater:
emigrate from Italy: w18.07 5-6
Swiss assist: jv 443; yb87 140-141
translation work: lfs article 15
traveling overseers: lfs articles 5, 15; w13 6/15 4-5; w11 7/15 21-23; w10 12/15 29; w89 8/1 30-31
use of divine name: g88 4/22 19
visits by—
Russell, C. T.: w05 6/15 13; jv 406
World War II: lfs article 15
youths:
antismoking poster based on Awake!: g99 7/8 32
discuss daily text in school: w05 8/15 32
essay on blood praised: g 6/09 30
praised for clean language: w02 9/15 9
reaches goal of full-time ministry: g88 1/22 22-23
resists romantic advances at school: yb08 24-25
uses School Guidebook in school: w87 12/1 21