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October 23, 2014

Italian priest, unfazed by death threats, goes after the Mafia

Fr. Luigi Ciotti has spent the past 20 years fighting the Italian Mafia.

ROME - Half a dozen men stand nonchalantly in front of a grubby building on one of Rome’s busiest streets as cars whizz past. They stiffen whenever a stranger approaches.

Published in International
September 4, 2014

Mafia boss threatens anti-mob activist priest

Father Luigi Ciotti, founder of the Italian anti-Mafia group Libera, attends a prayer service with Pope Francis for victims of the Mafia in Rome in this March 21 file photo. Police in Sicily said they overheard an imprisoned Mafia boss tell a fellow pris oner that Father Ciotti was "a priest to be eliminated."

ROME - The Italian bishops' conference has sent a message of solidarity to Fr. Luigi Ciotti, founder of Libera, a network of Italian anti-Mafia associations, following an apparent threat to his life from a Sicilian Mafia boss.

Published in International