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Venezuela: Arrests made in stabbing of US missionary priest
May 14, 2010
Venezuelan authorities announced on May 12 that they have charged three men in the brutal April 29 murder of a 68-year-old American missionary priest. Ordained in 1967, Father Stephen Wood was raised in California. Father Wood’s sister-in-law told the priest's hometown newspaper that thousands attended his funeral.
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Further information:
- Trio held in killing of priest (Vallejo Times-Herald)
- Area mourns missionary priest (Vallejo Times-Herald)
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