Fr. Sinnott Returns to Pagadian City

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 27 - The Irish priest who was kidnapped last year in Pagadian City has returned and resumed his missionary works, an official disclosed.

Allan June Molde, Zamboanga del Sur provincial government spokesman, disclosed that Fr. Michael Sinnott of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban (MSSC) arrived last Friday in Pagadian City, the capital of Zamboanga del Sur.

Sinnott arrived in Manila last January 15 following a vacation in Ireland after his release by the kidnappers in November last year.

The Irish priest was kidnapped in the evening of October 11 by gunmen who barged into the MSSC compound in Gatas District, Pagadian City while he was on an evening garden stroll.

He was freed by the kidnappers at dawn of November 12 and was turned over to government peace panel chairman Rafael Seguis in Barangay Sangali, 25 kilometers east of this city.

Molde said Sinnott, upon his arrival in Pagadian City, proceeded to the MSSC charity house which he founded several years ago. (PNA)

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