Yesterday 2 of our confreres, Fr Paul Sanogo aged 32 from Mali and Melchior a young Tanzanian Missionary of Africa student there for 2 years pastoral experience, were abducted/kidnapped from Gyedna parish in Minna Diocese near Abuja, Northern Nigeria. No details are known as yet, except that the other priests, Frs Dago (Mozambique), Otto (Uganda) and Edmond (Burkina Faso) are safe, either because they escaped or were absent.
Please pray for them both, for their families, for the Church in Nigeria which is suffering so much at the present time and for their captors that they have a change of heart and realise the harm they are causing innocent people and indeed themselves.
More news will be published here as it becomes available.