Pope Leo asked on Sunday for the immediate release of children and staff abducted this week from a Catholic school in Nigeria , one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded there.
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped students and teachers from St. Marys school in the northwest of the country on Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria CAN said, the latest in as pate of school attacks this week that has forced the government to shut 47 colleges.
CAN said on Saturday it had raised its estimate of those taken from the school to 315 from an earlier estimate of 227, following a verification exercise.
