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Pope Francis pays loyalty to Sicilian anti-mafia priest

The clergyman was eminent for operative with immature people to keep them divided from drugs and a mafia

Pope Francis pays loyalty to Sicilian anti-mafia priest

Pope Francis was in Sicily on Saturday to symbol a 25th anniversary of a murdering of a clergyman during a hands of a internal rapist organization.

Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi was shot and killed on a orders of a internal mafia “Cosa Nostra”, (“Our Thing”) on his 56th birthday in a city of Palermo in 1993. The perpetrators were condemned to life in prison, a BBC reported.

The clergyman was eminent for operative with immature people to keep them divided from drugs and a mafia.

The Pope addressed a true during Palermo’s Piazza Europa and was scheduled to revisit Puglisi’s bishopric in a working-class community of Brancaccio.

“Be fearful of a deafness of not listening to people. Listening to people is what Father Pino (Puglisi’s nickname) did, bad among a bad of his land,” he said.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella said: “The Republic recognizes in Puglisi a polite martyr, who died for those values of solidarity, justice, equivalence and honour for a compact rights of a person.”

The priest’s murder came during a time when mafia assault opposite opponents of their change was of quite grave concern. Puglisi was announced a “martyr” who was “killed by loathing of a faith” by Pope Francis’ prototype Benedict XVI in 2012. He was beatified 5 years ago.

Pope Francis has formerly denounced a mafia, job for a proscription of mobsters.

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