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Kidnapped Syrian priest is released
August 18, 2015
Father Tony Boutros, a Melkite Greek Catholic priest who was kidnapped in Syria in July, was freed on August 15, Archbishop Mario Zenari told Vatican Radio.
Archbishop Zenari, the apostolic nuncio in Syria, said that six clergymen, including two Orthodox bishops, “are still in the hands of the kidnappers.”
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