ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: Freed Irish Catholic priest Michael Sinnott has returned to his missionary work in the southern Philippines, two months after a harrowing ordeal in the hands of kidnappers.
The 80-year old Sinnott, who belongs to the Missionary Society of St. Columban, returned to Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur province on Monday. He immediately visited children staying at a charity house he founded in Pagadian City and vowed to continue his missionary works.
Sinnott was the third Irish missioner to be kidnapped in Mindanao since 1997. Father Des Hartford was held by rebels for 12 days, and in 2001, Father Rufus Hally, a missioner from Waterford, was shot dead during an attempted abduction.
