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[Agenzia Fides] Abuja -- A catechist, his pregnant wife, and 30 other people were kidnapped in Kadarko, in the Kadarko Local Government Area, Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeria. The catechist serves at the local parish of St. Joseph. The mass kidnapping occurred around 2:00 a.m. on February 10, when a group of armed bandits stormed into two areas near the village. The parish priest of St. Joseph Church, Father Linus Matthew Bobai, told local broadcaster Arise TV that "before the attack, the bandits had called one of my