A big fire hit a Romani settlement in the municipality of Spišský Štiavnik in eastern Slovakia on Tuesday evening. The fire ...

KOSICE, Slovakia, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Tuesday condemned prejudice and discrimination against Europe's Roma people during a visit to one of the most impoverished communities in ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said the… ...

Yet there is one cause, according to people who know him, that he has stuck with for decades: an abiding hostility toward Slovakia’s minority Roma population. Mr.

Lunik IX is the largest Roma settlement in Slovakia. Pope Francis visited it today as part of his apostolic journey to the country. With the pope’s focus on marginalized communities, this choice ...

KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday urged Slovakia’s Roma to integrate better into the mainstream as he met with the country’s most socially excluded minority group, who have ...

“As I've come to know this community, I've recognized a lot of the same issues we addressed as we worked among the Romani people in Slovakia,” Parks said. “I plan to pursue a similar calling ...

Roma are estimated to number between 350,000 to 600,000 of Slovakia's 5.4 million people, the largest percentage of any European country.

Birds fly above the Roma settlement at the Lunik IX quarter of Slovakia’s second largest city of Kosice, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. Pope Francis will make his visit to the impoverished Roma ...

Lunik XI is the biggest of about 600 shabby, segregated settlements where the poorest 20% of Slovakia’s 400,000 Roma live. Most lack basics such as running water or sewage systems, gas or ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said ...

Pope Francis meets with young people at Lokomotiva Stadium in Kos?ice, Slovakia, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Francis first trip since undergoing intestinal surgery in July, marks the restart of his ...