A priest and a seminarian kidnapped in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been released after three weeks in captivity.
Fr Paul Sanogo and Brother Melchior Mahinini, of the Missionaries of Africa (also known as the White Fathers), were abducted from their parish residence by criminals on August 2 in Minna diocese, Niger state, and were released on August 23.
In a statement seen by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Far Dennis Dashong Pam, provincial superior of the Missionaries of Africa in Ghana-Nigeria, wrote: “They are both fine, alive and healthy, despite the traumatising experience they went through in the hands of their abductors.
