(ANSA) - Vatican City, February 7 - Well-informed Vatican
sources on Thursday did not confirm a report in The Times
according to which Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, an Italian Jesuit
priest kidnapped in Syria in 2013, is alive.
"We have no confirmation", the sources told ANSA of the
report, which cited Kurdish forces.
The article said the extremist Islamist group is using
Dall'Oglio and two other Western hostages, British journalist
John Cantlie and a nurse from New Zealand, as "bargaining chips"
in negotiations with the US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces
surrounding them.
No confirmation Father Dall'Oglio alive
Jesuit priest in ISIS-held area, according to The Times