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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Pope warns against 'deadly path' in Mafia heartland Sicily AFP - 27 minutes ago Send IM Story Print PALERMO, Italy (AFP) - – Pope Benedict XVI urged Sicilians to turn their backs on the "deadly path" of Mafia membership, during a day-long visit Sunday to the island, the heartland of the criminal organisation. "Do not give in to the temptations of the Mafia," he told the crowds gathered in one of the main squares in the city of Palermo, to applause from the faithful. "Do not be scared of confronting evil!" he added. "Together you will be a forest of faith," capable of "profoundly renewing your land", he said. Organisers said his audience numbered 26,000 young people. The pope, speaking towards the end of a day-long visit to the island, which is in the grip of a social and economic crisis, also offered the example of several saints that could act as models for local young people. And he paid special tribute to Pino Puglisi, a priest who had worked in a difficult district of Palermo that was assassinated by the Mafia in 1993, and whom local people would like to see beatified. Earlier in the day Benedict celebrated an open-air mass in the Sicilian capital before tens of thousands of pilgrims, but disappointed anti-Mafia campaigners had said they felt his address did not go far enough. "We should be ashamed of evil, of that which offends God and man," he had told the crowds. "We should be ashamed of evil which wounds the civil and religious community with actions that do not like to be brought to light," he added. The pope's later remarks however were welcomed by Toni Dell'Olio, a priest and one of leader of Libera, Italy's largest anti-Mafia organisation. "This is exactly what we expected, a clear statement that the Mafia and Christianity are incompatible", he said. The clergy, he hoped, would "put into practice these statements from the pope," he told AFP. Some members of the clergy had been guilty of compromising their values, he said, giving the example of a priest who celebrated mass in the hideout of a wanted Mafia chief. Before the visit to Sicily, Benedict's first since becoming pope in 2005, anti-Mafia campaigners had called on him to deliver a strong condemnation of organised crime. Following his denunciation of the Mafia and just before he left the island, the pope made an unscheduled stop to lay a wreath at a monument dedicated to judge Giovanni Falcone, killed by the Cosa Nostra in May 1992. The pope arrived at and left from the island's Falcone Borsellino airport, named after two judges killed by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992. Earlier Sunday, Benedict had travelled through Palermo in his popemobile as residents hung welcoming banners from their houses. But the atmosphere was subdued, in part due to restrictions on movement and a heavy security presence. Celebrating mass that morning in Palermo's Foro Italico square, the pope urged pilgrims to have faith, despite the "shortage of jobs, uncertainty about the future, moral and physical suffering, and organised crime" in Sicily. "I am here to give you a strong incentive not to be afraid to testify clearly to human and Christian values, so deeply rooted in faith and in the history of this land and its people," he said. Organisers said around 200,000 people had packed into the square and surrounding streets to attend the mass, celebrated by the pope in bright sunshine against the backdrop of the glittering Mediterranean. "People of Sicily, look to the future with hope," the pope told them. "Live with courage the values of the Gospel to shine a light on good. With the power of God, everything is possible." Benedict XVI has in the past condemned the Camorra, the dominant organised crime group in Naples. During an open-air mass in the southern city in 2007, he called for "a struggle against all forms of violence". The Italian Episcopal Conference, the organisation of Italian bishops, issued a report on the Mafia earlier this year, calling it a "real cancer" and "one of the deepest wounds" in Italy's more impoverished southern regions. 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