‘We came back stronger’: Priest, seminarian abducted in Nigeria recall three-week ordeal
Father Paul Sanogo and seminarian Melchior Maharini, who were kidnapped from their Missionaries of Africa community in Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Minna, came back to the community on Aug. 23 weary, traumatized, and sick. The two had spent three weeks in captivity, where they were flogged almost daily, made to sleep on rocks out in the open,