Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘My family fought a five-year legal battle to get planning permission for a small site, so we could maintain our way of life and ...

They came to Europe from India in the Middle Ages. Their Romany language is flecked with words close to Hindi and is spoken in various dialects from Transylvania to San Francisco. To the outside world ...

For many, Halloween is a cheerful celebration, a time to stir imaginations with creative costumes and play with new identities; for me, leading an initiative at Columbia University about the Roma—a ...

France has begun the first deportations of 700 members of the Roma Gypsy minority, to Romania and Bulgaria, as part of its controversial crackdown on communities officials hold responsible for ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is to star in Gypsy Boy, a movie based on Mikey Walsh's memoirs growing up in the Romany/gypsy community in the 80s and 90s. It is likely to draw controversy as the word "gypsy" ...

For centuries, they have been figures of fear and fascination, in their colorful clothes and seemingly carefree lives. And while gypsies, as they are called, have left their mark on society with their ...

I have no known potential conflicts of interest with this publication. A recent undercover project led by children’s charity Barnardo’s exposed the shocking realities facing vulnerable young people.