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Italian towns take stock of losses to the region’s cultural heritage

by Stefano Pitrelli & James McAuley, The Washington Post

AMATRICE, Italy — This was once a quiet hilltop town in the rustic countryside of northern Lazio, relatively untouched for over 1,000 years. Now, in the wake of Wednesday’s devastating 6.2-magnitude earthquake, this medieval village is little more than a pile of rubble, already a memory. Continua la lettura di Italian towns take stock of losses to the region’s cultural heritage

La culla della cristianità è sempre più vuota

Stefano Pitrelli, L’Huffington Post
MUSULMANI

Nel corso dei prossimi trentacinque anni l’Islam crescerà più in fretta di qualsiasi altra grande religione — cioè del 73% — e il numero dei musulmani nel mondo quasi raggiungerà quello dei cristiani, anche se quest’ultimo resterà ancora il “gregge” più folto.

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When the pope speaks, priest abuse cases get heard

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report

NAPLES, Italy — Diego was the shy one in Father Silverio Mura’s class; a 13-year-old, olive-skinned and handsome, who spent his free time indoors watching cartoons. He walked to school alone in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, stopping first to pray to a statue of the Virgin Mary in the rose garden in front of his apartment building.

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