Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.01.08 | 11:31 AM ET
Father Adelir Antonio de Carli was found off the Brazilian coast this week. The priest had taken flight in April via hundreds of helium-filled balloons to “help raise money for a chapel for truckers in his highway parish,” Reuters reports.
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Penelope Wells 08.02.08 | 9:22 AM ET
The article said they found the priest. Well, was he alive or dead? Isn’t that important in journalism?