A New Orleans nun has been discovered alive after she was kidnapped throughout an armed dwelling raid in Burkina Faso in April, The Occasions-Picayune reported.
Sister Suellen Tennyson, a Roman Catholic nun, was kidnapped when 10 males entered a house she was sharing with two different nuns and two Burkinabè girls, in keeping with Bishop Theophile Nare of the Kaya Diocese.
The 83-year-old nun reportedly “discovered her calling” by way of work within the West African nation, ministering to ravenous and malnourished kids, the newspaper reported. She had stayed in Burkina Faso regardless of calls to go away amid current violence, in keeping with the newspaper.
Tennyson is now in Niamey, Niger — roughly 160 miles from the place she was kidnapped in Yalgo, Burkina Faso — and in U.S. arms, in keeping with a letter despatched to members of Tennyson’s order, the Marianites of Holy Cross, and obtained by The Occasions-Picayune. The letter doesn't clarify how she was found or embody info on her situation.
The nun was held by kidnappers for practically 5 months and is worn out from the expertise, in keeping with Sister Ann Lacour, the congregational chief of the Marianites of Holy Cross.
“I advised her how a lot individuals love her, and she or he doesn’t have something to fret about. I advised her, ‘You might be alive and secure. That’s all that issues,’” Lacour advised the Clarion Herald, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
“Thanks be to God!!!!” the archdiocese wrote on its Fb web page Tuesday.
The Marianites didn't instantly reply to a HuffPost request for additional remark.
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