FRANCE
Pakistan Today
A Catholic priest will be sent to court after admitting he stole more than 700,000 Euros ($741,000) collected from churchgoers and buyers of holy candles over a quarter of a century, the French public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
René Heuillet, 80, admitted pocketing proceeds of regular church collections between 1987 and retirement in early 2013, plus 100,000 Euros from votive candle sales, said a statement from the prosecutor’s office in Foix, in southwestern France.
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