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Burkina Faso bishop says American nun freed by captors

Burkina Faso Sahel soldiers

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso AP 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. Sister Suellen Tennyson had been abducted by 10 gunmen without her blood pressure medication. The church statement about her release, […]

Gunmen took 83-year-old nun from bed in Burkina Faso, says order

Marianites of Holy Cross Sister Suellen Tennyson

New Orleans, US AP Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday. Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in […]