Pope Leo meets families of youth lost to illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy’s ‘Land of Fires’
- On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV arrived in Acerra, Italy, to meet families grieving children lost to cancer, which they attribute to a massive toxic-waste dumping racket linked to organized crime.
- The area, known as Terra dei Fuochi, suffers from toxic waste buried by the Camorra crime syndicate. The European Court of Human Rights validated residents' complaints last year, finding Italian authorities knew since 1988 but failed to protect 2.9 million people.
- Bishop Antonio Di Donna estimates 150 young people died in Acerra over three decades. Families including Filomena Carolla, whose daughter Tina died at 24, and Maria Venturato's relatives seek justice for the environmental tragedy.
- Filomena Carolla and Angelo, father of a victim, urged the Pope to intervene with officials to "heal this land of fires," seeking a future for the next generation free from environmental harm.
- This visit marks the eve of the 11th anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si, signaling Pope Leo's commitment to continuing his predecessor's environmental agenda in addressing the toxic-waste crisis.
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Pope Visits Area Where Mafia Dumps Toxic Waste
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday greeted families one by one who've lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples, as many paused to share photos and other mementos of children and young people who've died or are battling cancer—illnesses tied to a multibillion criminal racket...
ROMA.- Leon XIV became this Saturday the first pontiff to step on the sadly called “terra dei fuochi” (land of fires), an area north of Naples and south of Caserta “poisoned”, marked by the illegal burning of toxic waste disposed of by the mafia, a million-dollar business that caused terrible health problems due to dramatic environmental pollution. When visiting the town of Acerra, one of the vertices of the also called “triangle of death”, in w…
Pope meets grieving families affected by mafia dumping
Pope Leo has greeted grieving families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples, tied to a multi-billion-dollar mafia-run criminal racket. Many paused to share photographs and other mementos of children and young people who have died or are battling cancer because of the pollution. Leo’s visit to the so-called Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, came on the eve of the eleventh anniversary of the late Pope Francis’ big …
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