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Spanish Government to Pay for Ebola Priest's Air Evacuation

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Denies Claims That Priest's Religious Order Would Be Charged for Flight

Aug. 8, 2014 10:57 a.m. ET

MADRID—As a Spanish priest infected with the Ebola virus received treatment in a hospital here, the government moved to quash a controversy by saying it wouldn't make the priest's religious order pay for his air evacuation out of Liberia.

Father Miguel Pajares, a 75-year-old missionary, was being treated in a special isolation unit of Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, where he arrived Thursday after being flown out of Liberia in an Air Force medical jet. On Friday, officials from Father Pajares's religious order, the...

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