Kidnapped priest discusses his captivity by jihadists in Africa aleteia.org

Two years in captivity provided Fr. Macalli a chance to review his life and to meditate on the Gospel. The Italian missionary gave his first interview to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, days after being released by kidnappers in Mali.

Militant extremists from Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, a branch of al Qaida in Mali, kidnapped him in Niger, on the border with Burkina Faso, the night between September 17-18, 2018, according to the Union of Catholic Asian News…

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