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How The Calabrian Mob Is Infiltrating Religious Traditions Across Italy

From ancient processions to family funerals, the powerful Calabrian organized crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta is infiltrating into religious rites is present across the country.

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Hard To Process

The penitent on the right-hand side of this picture was having a hard time breathing under his capirote, during Easter processions in southern Spain.

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Bali Ball

When it’s a celebration day on the Indonesian island of Bali, you come across a different procession every five minutes or so — each more colorful than the last.

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Looks Can Be Deceiving

These conical hats, or capirotes, and white robes were worn by Spanish penitents during Easter celebrations long before the white supremacist Ku Kux Klan began donning them. But they’re still spooky.

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