Catholic priest among five kidnap victims in Mali vaticannews.va

Armed men have kidnapped five Catholics, including a priest serving in Mali’s Mopti Diocese, Church officials said on Tuesday, in the latest incident of kidnapping in the West-African country.

Reports say that the group of five, including the Parish Priest of Ségué, Fr. Léon Douyon, was abducted about thirty kilometres North of Ségué, in the vicinity of Ouo on Monday while traveling to the town of San for the funeral of a priest…

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