Tag: Kidnapping

Lost, then found, then lost

May 27, 2016 Nigeria Chibok girls, Children, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

On 19 May, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari held a ceremony at the presidential palace to meet Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, the first of the 219 girls kidnapped from their Chibok school in April 2014 . The girl was there with her new baby, and her elderly mother. The three haven’t . . . Read More

Coptic monk kidnapped in Darfur released

May 26, 2016 Sudan Darfur, Kidnapping, Nyala, Sudan

An Egyptian-born monk has been released, 40 days after he was abducted in Sudan’s embattled Darfur region, reports Fides. Rev. Ghabrial al-Antony, a Coptic Orthodox monk working in Nyala, South Darfur, was kidnapped on 14 April by an armed group, not far from the refugee camp in Atash. According to . . . Read More

How to rebuild Nigeria after Boko Haram?

May 17, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Education, Kidnapping, Nigeria

A security summit of regional and Western powers in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has pledged a “global approach” comprising military and developmental efforts to end the threat posed by Boko Haram. Recent military operations by Nigeria and regional forces have led to territorial gains and revealed the scale of devastation. They . . . Read More

Coptic teenager kidnapped for ransom in Upper Egypt

April 21, 2016 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Kidnapping, Qena

The News Earlier this month, a young Christian boy was kidnapped in Upper Egypt, before being released 12 days later after the payment of a hefty ransom. Anthonius Farag, 13, was snatched outside his school early in the morning on April 5, in the village of Mansheyyit Manbal, off Matay . . . Read More

Demonstration remembers kidnapped Aleppo Bishops

April 20, 2016 Syria Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi, Kidnapping, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

The kidnapped Aleppo Bishops, Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi, were last seen three years ago this week. A multi-faith demonstration to remember them was held in Beirut, Lebanon 19 April, . There has been no news of the two men since their abduction on 22 April 2013, near the Turkish . . . Read More

Coptic monk kidnapped from Sudan farm

April 18, 2016 Sudan Darfur, Khartoum, Kidnapping, Sudan

The Cairo-based news organization Watani International that an Egyptian-born Coptic monk serving in Sudan has been kidnapped. Rev. Ghabrial al-Antony was working on his brother’s farm in Sudan’s Darfur region, Watani quoted Rev. Boulos Fouad of the Coptic Church in Khartoum as saying. Fouad said three men tied up the . . . Read More

Priest’s crucifixion rumours false, says India’s Foreign Minister

April 4, 2016 Yemen Aden, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Tom Uzhunnalil, Yemen

Mathew Uzhunnalil, left, the older brother of kidnapped priest Thomas Uzhunnallil, talks with their cousin, V.A. Thomas, in the family home in Kerala state, India.World Watch Monitor UPDATE (4 April) India’s government has said rumours that a kidnapped Catholic priest was crucified on Good Friday are false, and promised . . . Read More

Gunmen kill 4 nuns and 12 others in Yemen

March 7, 2016 Yemen Aden, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Ansar al-Sharia, Hodeidah, Houthis, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Sana'a, Taiz, Tom Uzhunnalil

Four Catholic nuns from the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity were among 16 victims killed by six unidentified gunmen at a home for the elderly in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden. The four missionary nurses were serving breakfast to the home’s 80 residents on 4 March when armed . . . Read More

Islamic State releases 43 Assyrian hostages

February 22, 2016 Syria Assyrians, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Syria

The so-called Islamic State has released 43 Assyrian Christians – the remaining hostages of the . The group is on its way to Tel Tamr, a town close to the villages they were abducted from, according to Younan Talia of the Assyrian Democratic Organization. Talia said the release came after . . . Read More

Burkina Faso: Australian Christian woman freed

February 8, 2016 Burkina Faso Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Burkina Faso, Djibo, Islamic extremism, Ken Elliott, Kidnapping, Ouagadougou

Islamic militants have freed an Australian woman who was kidnapped with her husband last month in Burkina Faso, . Jocelyn Elliott and her husband Ken, a medical doctor, were snatched on 15 Jan. by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from Djibo, near the border with Mali. The couple, who are . . . Read More

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