VATICAN CITY, April 16 (UPI) -- An Italian animal rights group made an appeal to Pope Francis, urging him to condemn the eating of lamb at Easter.
“Holy father, stop the shameful slaughter of lambs killed only to satisfy greed at Easter,” Lorenzo Croce of the Italian Animal and Environment Defense Association. In a letter sent Wednesday and released to media, Croce added that he sought “protection of the lambs and all the other animals killed and tortured on the planet.”