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French priest is 4th missionary slain this year in South Africa

December 09, 2009

Father Louis Blondel, a French missionary priest of the White Fathers, was killed in Pretoria, South Africa, on December 6. He was shot down by one of three young men who broke into the White Fathers’ residence in Diepsloot, a township of Pretoria. Father Blondel is the 4th Catholic missionary to be killed in South Africa this year.

 


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