https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A crusading anti-Mafia priest on Sunday called for the feared organized crime mob to reveal where it has buried the bodies of its numerous victims. https://www.thelocal.it/20170320/priest-demands-that-mafia-reveal-burial-site Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:58:05 +0100 priest-demands-that-mafia-reveal-burial-site The Vatican on Tuesday urged Catholics not to scatter the ashes of the dead after cremation and instead to store them in places approved by the Church. https://www.thelocal.it/20161026/vatican-tells-catholics-not-to-scatter-ashes-of-the-dead Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:00:14 +0200 vatican-tells-catholics-not-to-scatter-ashes-of-the-dead The ashes of Renato Bialetti, the man who turned the octagonal coffee pot into a global icon, were buried inside a giant Moka on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160217/italys-late-coffee-king-buried-inside-iconic-moka-pot Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:24:19 +0100 italys-late-coffee-king-buried-inside-iconic-moka-pot Horrific accounts emerged on Tuesday of how 30 migrants were left to die, bolted by traffickers into the suffocating hull of an overcrowded fishing boat, as their bodies were brought to Sicily for burial. https://www.thelocal.it/20140702/traffickers-left-migrants-to-die-like-beasts Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0200 traffickers-left-migrants-to-die-like-beasts Italians hit by the economic crisis in the north-eastern city of Genoa are unable to pay for burials, leaving one local funeral home with a €500,000 bill last year alone. https://www.thelocal.it/20140410/italians-in-genoa-cant-afford-to-pay-for-funerals Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:31:00 +0200 italians-in-genoa-cant-afford-to-pay-for-funerals Archaeologists in Florence have unearthed a burial ground by the city’s famed Uffizi Gallery, heralded as "an exceptional piece of documentary evidence" which will open a window onto life in Tuscany hundreds of years ago. https://www.thelocal.it/20140213/burial-site-for-plague-victims-unearthed-in-florence Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:58:00 +0100 burial-site-for-plague-victims-unearthed-in-florence The family of a woman who died in 1994 was shocked to discover her body had been removed from a cemetery in Turin and cremated without them knowing. https://www.thelocal.it/20130913/grandas-body-dug-up-without-family-knowing Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:27:00 +0200 grandas-body-dug-up-without-family-knowing