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Corsica is one of the few French territories to have a repertoire of songs that are steeped in history and still in use today, songs that blend the sacred and the secular and which will be given pride ...
News France » Corsica » Life: ‘Maybe I’ll Throw a Grenade’: The Island That’s Turning Against France
AJACCIO, Corsica – He was born five years after it all started. But Arthur Solinas tells the story of Yvan Colonna, a Corsican nationalist militant convicted of killing the Mediterranean island’s top ...
News France » Corsica » Life: In Corsica, autonomy measure stirs debate and doubt
The colorful graffiti sprinkled across this mountain town offers one clue about some political sentiments here. "Liberty for Stefanu Ori," is plastered on one peeling wall, referring to a Corsican ...
News France » Corsica » Life: Pope Francis makes 1st papal visit to France's Corsica awash in expressions of popular piety
The one-day visit to Corsica’s capital Ajaccio, birthplace of Napoleon, on Sunday is one of the briefest of his papacy beyond Italy’s borders. Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French ...
News France » Corsica » Life: Pope Francis makes 1st papal visit to France's Corsica awash in expressions of popular piety
Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishes the Mediterranean ...