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Fr. Arinze Madu, Vice Rector at Nigeria’s Queen of Apostles Spiritual Year Seminary, Enugu, kidnapped outside seminary gate and released unharmed two days later on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. He narrated his ordeal to ACI Africa, Friday, November 8, 2019 / Communications office Enugu Diocese, Nigeria

“I started preparing myself towards eternity,” Nigerian Priest Recounts Abduction Ordeal

Nov 9, 2019

Fr. Arinze Madu, the Nigerian Catholic Priest who had been abducted at the gate of Queen of Apostles Spiritual Year Seminary in Nigeria’s Enugu diocese and later released unharmed has recounted his two-day ordeal in the hands of his abductors and told ACI Africa that his safe release was God’s doing and that he had started preparing himself for eternal life.

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