Philippines: Kidnappers urged to start talks on kidnapped priest Fr. Sinnott
— UCAN News reports: “The crisis committee in charge of the bid to rescue Father Michael Sinnott issued a plea to his kidnappers on Nov. 2 to start negotiations.”
— “Officials of Pagadian diocese remain concerned about the priest’s health despite receiving a video of the man along with a US$2 million ransom demand.
— “‘I am naturally happy to see him alive on video,’ Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar of Pagadian told UCA News. However, the video arrived five days after it was taken on Oct. 24, so ‘we do not know how he is right now.'”
— “‘I’m hoping to see a more recent video of Father Mick,’ the Redemptorist bishop said on Nov. 2 after an All Souls’ Day Mass at the diocesan cemetery.”
— “He added that he would like to see how the 79-year-old priest was holding up without medication for a heart condition.”
— “The bishop said he hopes negotiations on getting medicines to the priest would start soon and “in the long run” address the issue of his freedom.”
— “Crisis Management Committee spokesman June Allan Molde told UCA News that his committee on Nov. 2 appealed to the kidnappers to contact the committee and start negotiations.”
Photo of Fr. Michael Sinnott from Missionary Society of St. Columban
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