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Reflections from Africa on destroying idols and saving souls

April 18, 2023 Fr. William Ryan 25

When my brother Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J. visited me not long ago at the mission parish here in Togo, West Africa, where I’ve served for the past seventeen years as a priest on loan from […]

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