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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Four armed inmates released a captive prison administrator, his secretary and two female guards on Wednesday in Western Honduras, responding to pleas from a priest and relatives of the hostages.

The inmates, who held the hostages for more than a day, gave up on demands for a getaway car and agreed to turn over their weapons and return to their cells, said Wilmer Torres, the spokesman for the Security Ministry.

A Roman Catholic priest and family members of the captors were sent into the prison and successfully convinced the inmates to end the standoff peacefully.

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Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga was granted an honorary award from the Viktor Frankl Foundation for his work in psychology.

Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga is the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and the president of Caritas Internationalis.

The Vienna-based Viktor Frankl Foundation promotes a humanistic approach to psychotherapy. The award recognizes the life’s work of Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga.

Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga completed studies in clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Leopold Franz University, Innsbruck, Austria. He also has doctorates in moral theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, in philosophy from the Institute Don Rua in El Salvador, and in theology from the Salesian Pontifical University.

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