After almost five years as a captive of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali in West Africa, a Colombian nun, Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, has been freed.

She was flown from Bamako, Mali’s capital, direct to Rome where Vatican Media posted photos of her being greeted by the Pope at mass.in St Peter’s Basilica. She told AFP: “I’m very happy; I stayed healthy for five years, thank God.”

(World Watch Monitor)

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