"Catholic priest kidnapped in The Philippines"

From Spero News
By Martin Barillas

A Catholic missionary was abducted from his home on the evening of October 11 in Pagadian City on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Four assailants separate into the Father Michael Sinnott at his residence while he was strolling in the garden. Dragging him to a waiting pickup truck, he was then trundled into a waiting speed dish at a local beach.

The whereabouts of the octogenarian priest, dropped in Ireland, are ease unknown, while no group has still to verify responsibility for the terrorist act. There are crisp suspicions that a Islamic terrorist group may be responsible, since priests and other Christian missionaries hit been abducted or murdered in the time by Abu Sayyaf – an associate of the al Qaeda terrorist network. Groups such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front hit operated for decades in hopes of setting up a separate Islamic state.

Father Shay Cullen, a man Irelander and priest who leads PREDA – a female welfare and advocacy organization in the Philippines – called for prayers. Said Rev. Cullen in an email, “Please pray and ingest every contacts to distribute the news and we obligation that no violence are used by the authorities but peaceful word be conducted for his release. We are with you Father archangel in Sprit and prayer.”

Father archangel Sinnott (80), a member of the Columban order, is originally from Barntown in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. Ordained in 1954, he was appointed to Mindanao in the southern state in 1957 following his studies in Rome. Rev. Sinnott served in Mindanao until 1966 before being appointed to the theology staff in Dalgan Park, Navan. He returned to the state in 1976 where he has served in a variety of pastoral and administrative roles. Since 1998 he has been involved with a school for children with special needs.