Fears growing for priest after two weeks in captivity

FEARS are growing about the wellbeing of kidnapped Irish priest Fr Michael Sinnott, who is entering his third week of captivity in the Philippines today.

Reports at the weekend from the Philippines said the 79-year-old was alive but unwell.

Fr Sinnott was taken at gunpoint from his mission office in the city of Pagadian, on Mindanao island, on 11 October. Last week the Department of Foreign Affairs dismissed rumours that the missionary, who underwent heart surgery recently, had died in captivity.