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Catholic Missionary Priest Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Fr. Pedro Opeka.

Anne Aubert/Amici di Padre Pedro via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Fr. Pedro Opeka.

Pope Francis visited Fr. Opeka’s “City of Friendship” built atop a rubbish dump on the outskirts of the capital city of Antananarivo during his apostolic visit to Madagascar in September 2019.