Tag: Sicily's Cosa Nostra

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:37 UTC

  Pope calls on the mafia to change or 'end up in hell, at annual ceremony for the mafiosi victims

  

  Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else “end up in hell”. The mafia continues to plague much of southern Italy: just on Monday, a four-year-old boy was shot dead, along with his mother and her boyfriend, near the southern city of Taranto in a suspected mob hit.