Cameroonian religious workers freed after month in captivity
Five priests, a nun, and three laypeople where kidnapped over a month ago in Cameroon have been freed in Nigeria.
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by bcadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | Ambazonia, Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, lead, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Five priests, a nun, and three laypeople where kidnapped over a month ago in Cameroon have been freed in Nigeria.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | Burkina Faso, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, News, Religious Sisters | 0 |
During nearly five months of captivity in Burkina Faso, Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson wondered aloud where God was hiding in the midst of her isolation and loneliness.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Burkina Faso, Catholic missionaries, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, News | 0 |
An 83-year-old American nun kidnapped from her bed in Burkina Faso earlier this year has been released by her captors unharmed, Catholic church officials in the West African nation said Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, News, Nigeria | 0 |
Four Catholic nuns kidnapped in southeast Nigeria Aug. 21 were released two days later, their order said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Africa, Church in Africa, Fulani, Kidnappings, lead, News, Nigeria, Nuns | 0 |
On Sunday unknown gunmen abducted four nuns in Nigeria’s Imo state, making the sisters the latest victims in a swath of kidnappings plaguing west African nation, many of which target the Catholic community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, Methodists, News, Nigeria | 0 |
Nigeria’s police on Friday said they are still looking for suspects in the abduction of the head of the Methodist Church Nigeria who was freed in exchange for a ransom of 100 million naira ($240,600).
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, Methodists, News, Nigeria | 0 |
The head of the Methodist Church Nigeria regained his freedom a day after being kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the country’s southeast.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 21, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Kidnappings, Missionaries, News | 0 |
Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 19, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Kidnappings, Missionaries, News | 0 |
All the former hostages from a U.S.-based missionary group kidnapped in Haiti have been flown out of the country after a two-month ordeal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 17, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Kidnappings, Missionaries, News | 0 |
The remaining members of a U.S. missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Kidnappings, Missionaries, News | 0 |
A religious group based in Ohio announced Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Kidnappings, Missionaries, News | 0 |
Two of 17 members of a missionary group who were kidnapped more than a month ago have been freed in Haiti and are safe, “in good spirits and being cared for,” their Ohio-based church organization announced Sunday.
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