Each summer the English upland town of Appleby-in-Westmorland hosts a spontaneous week-long ‘happening’. It’s the event of the year for a culture with an unsettled past—and an uncertain future. A man ...

If there is a universal musical language reaching from India across the Middle East and into Europe, it is best represented in the Gypsy culture--or, in the preferred description, the Roma people. It ...

A new document addressing the unique issue of pastoral care for the world’s heavily-persecuted population of Gypsies, saw light today during a presentation at the Vatican’s Press Office. The document, ...