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WASHINGTON — A Nigerian priest abducted by armed insurgents, forced to march barefoot for days and left chained up for over a month before his release is opening up about his road to healing as he seeks to help others who have suffered similar trauma.
During a Religious Freedom Roundtable discussion on Tuesday, Fr. Stephen Ojapah, author of Tears and Torture: 33 Days in Kidnappers Den, recalled the night of his abduction in May 2022.
On that night, Ojapah and four others, including Fr. Oliver Oparah, sought refuge at a parish in Nigeria’s Katsina state. The insurgents who stormed the parish, thought to be a jihadist group that had split from Boko Haram, rounded everyone up, but they could not identify which one was the priest.
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During a Religious Freedom Roundtable discussion on Tuesday, Fr. Stephen Ojapah, author of Tears and Torture: 33 Days in Kidnappers Den, recalled the night of his abduction in May 2022.
On that night, Ojapah and four others, including Fr. Oliver Oparah, sought refuge at a parish in Nigeria’s Katsina state. The insurgents who stormed the parish, thought to be a jihadist group that had split from Boko Haram, rounded everyone up, but they could not identify which one was the priest.
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A month in chains: Nigerian priest abducted, forced to march barefoot forgives attackers
A Nigerian priest abducted by armed insurgents, forced to march barefoot for days and left chained up for over a month before his release is opening up about his road to healing as he seeks to help
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