A desperate search is underway for an American nun who was kidnapped in Africa

January 20, 2022
By Scott Stump | Today.com

Friends and colleagues of an 83-year-old nun from New Orleans are praying for her safe return after they say she was kidnapped earlier this week in the West African nation of Burkina Faso by a group of unidentified gunmen.

Sister Suellen Tennyson, a nun in the Catholic congregation of the Marianites of Holy Cross, was abducted overnight on Monday from the convent at the church's parish in Yalgo, according to a news release by the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

The kidnappers vandalized the convent and took her to an unknown destination, according to the archdiocese.

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