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ROME: A Catholic Filipino missionary is feared kidnapped in the
Philippines after he went missing five days ago, a news agency close
to the Vatican said here on Friday.
Lucio Bola, 46, “went out to go and bless a
house . . . and has not come back since,” the Rome-based Asianews
agency cited a witness as saying. Police and religious authorities
have launched a search, it added.
Asianews said two Christian missionaries have
already been abducted and killed by Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic group
active in the southern Philippines where the vast, 80-percent
Catholic archipelago’s Muslim minority is concentrated.
Bola disappeared after leaving his family home
in the province of Misamis on the southern island of Mindanao. He
had just come home for a break from his mission on the island of
Cebu in the center of the Philippines.
--AFP
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