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Gallup Independent

Published in the Gallup Independent, Nov. 8, 2014

By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Independent correspondent
religion@gallupindependent.com

GALLUP — Bishop James S. Wall of the Diocese of Gallup has refused to answer any questions about allegations surrounding the mysterious disappearance of one of his foreign priests.

Instead, Susan G. Boswell, his lead bankruptcy attorney, released a short announcement Wall had sent to be read to the St. Anthony Indian Mission parishioners Oct. 26.

The Rev. Ravi Kiran, aka Ravi Kiran Dasari or Ravikiran Dasari, a native of India, “abandoned his assignment” at the mission church on the Pueblo of Zuni, according to Wall’s announcement.

A list of questions about Kiran’s disappearance, allegations of possible misuse of church funds, and a subsequent audit of the mission’s financial accounts were submitted to Wall and to the Rev. Kevin Finnegan, the diocesan chancellor, on Tuesday. As is the bishop’s…