Missionary Pilot Remains Missing 2 Months After Kidnapping In Niger

 

Washington D.C. – Christian Post, Dec. 18, 2025

Nearly two months since American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout was kidnapped from his home in the highly secure Château 1 neighborhood of Niamey in the capital of Niger in West Africa, local Christians say they are worried about the silence around efforts to rescue him.

“[This] leaves a feeling of apprehension, fear and uncertainty,” Father Augustine Anwuchie, a Nigerian Fidei Donum priest serving as a missionary in the Diocese of Maradi in Niger, told OSV News, a Catholic outlet, in a recent interview. “This case seems to be taking longer, and no one knows the culprits nor the whereabouts of the victim.”


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