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Holy Father to have audience with Ingrid Betancourt. Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian citizen freed after 6 years of captivity by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), will be …More
Holy Father to have audience with Ingrid Betancourt.

Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian citizen freed after 6 years of captivity by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), will be received by Pope Benedict XVI on September 1 in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.

The presidential candidate kidnapped on February 23, 2002 expressed her desire to meet the Holy Father on the same day of her release July 2, Vatican Radio reports.

After the audience with the Holy Father, she will meet with journalists.