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Published in the Gallup Independent, Nov. 18, 2014

Part three of a three-part series

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

ZUNI — In addition to allegations about the Rev. Ravi Kiran’s possible misuse of funds at St. Anthony’s Indian Mission, Kiran’s abrupt departure last month has raised a number of other unanswered questions.

They are questions that the Diocese of Gallup, the Pueblo of Zuni and Kiran have declined to answer.

Kiran, aka Ravi Kiran Dasari or Ravikiran Dasari, came from India to the Diocese of Gallup in the spring of 2009. In August 2012, Bishop James S. Wall assigned Kiran, his former superintendent of Catholic schools, to St. Anthony’s, a mission parish and school on the Pueblo of Zuni. Franciscan Friars had managed St. Anthony’s for nearly 90 years, before withdrawing from the mission in 2011.

Kiran’s renovation of the mission’s historical…