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Nigeria: priest murdered

August 17, 2015

A Claretian missionary priest serving in Nigeria was murdered on August 15, the Fides news service reports.

Father Dennis Osuagwu was killed in an ambush on the road, his religious superiors reported. Police suspect that the murder may have been motivated by a dispute at a school where he taught.

 


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