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Missionary priest brutally slain in Mozambique

CWN - May 07, 2012

A Consolata missionary priest was brutally slain in his residence in Matola, a city of 750,000 in the southeastern African nation of Mozambique.

Father Valentim Camale, 48, was beaten to death while attempting to resist a robbery by four armed men. Born in Mozambique, he entered religious life in 1983 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2000.

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