When Sr. Suellen Tennyson was abducted in April 2022 from her Burkina Faso convent, she was beginning a five-month journey into the inscrutable hands of God.
During nearly five months of captivity in Burkina Faso, Marianite Sr. Suellen Tennyson wondered aloud where God was hiding in the midst of her isolation and loneliness.
Marianite Sr. Suellen Tennyson, who was kidnapped from the convent of her educational and medical mission in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, in early April, has been found alive and is safe after nearly five months of captivity.
Sr. Suellen Tennyson, 83, was kidnapped from the convent at Holy Family Parish in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, because she's American, the congregational leader for the community said.
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