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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Pope decries environmental harm in land of fires - You Need To See This

Pope Leo greets crowds at Piazza Nicola Calipari during a visit to the “Land of Fires” in southern Ialy. (Photo: AFP)

ACERRA, Italy - Pope Leo XIV made a visit on Saturday to Italy’s “Land of Fires”, where for decades the mafia has illegally dumped and burned toxic rubbish, poisoning both people and their land.

Hazardous waste — often from Italy’s wealthy north — has long been set alight or buried in the area around Acerra, a city near Naples, in the southern region of Campania.

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