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Niger: kidnapped priest released after two years

October 12, 2020

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Pierluigi Maccalli, an Italian missionary priest who was kidnapped by Islamic radicals in Niger in 2018, has been set free. The government of Mali helped to negotiate the priest’s release.

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