Sicily

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/16/2021
  

  In the Land of Godfathers, the Church Pushes the Tradition Aside

  Church authorities in Sicily have grown concerned that the naming of baptismal godparents has been subordinated to secular concerns of social networking, in extreme cases tied to organized crime. 

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Tracing World War 2's Impact on Sicily's Cultural Heritage Sites and Museums

  by Antonino Crisà

  World War II profoundly affected museums and antiquities in Sicily; a new research project is examining this underappreciated destructive consequence of war.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-24-17
  

  500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History

  More than 500 years after Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, a nascent Jewish community is planting fresh roots in the Sicilian capital, reclaiming a lost, often painful, history, this time with the aid of the local diocese.

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• How Ian Fleming Masterminded the Invasion of Sicily

  by Daniel Mandel

  The job of coming up with a deception plan fell to a small inter-departmental intelligence team, the Twenty Committee, which specialized in producing double agents (The Twenty Committee was often identified by the symbols XX, standing for double cross).