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Pilgrims in Lourdes remember French monks murdered during Algerian civil war
Africanews [en]
Pilgrims in Lourdes marking the feast of the Assumption paid tribute to the monks of Tibhirine on Sunday, thirty years after their murder. The seven French monks were kidnapped and killed in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War.
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