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Praise God.
The mother of a priest in the Madison Catholic Diocese has been rescued after being kidnapped in Nigeria and held captive for a week, according to the diocese.
The woman, Virginia Arinze, had been abducted at gunpoint from her home on the afternoon of Feb. 21, Nigerian time, according to Monsignor James Bartylla, the diocese’s second-in-command.
She is the mother of the Rev. Paul Arinze, 42, a Nigerian native and pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Beloit.
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