Victor Mosele

Fr. Victor Mosele is a Catholic Xaverian Missionary priest. He spent 30 years in Sierra Leone building schools, clinics, and spreading the Gospel. At one point, he was in charge of 33 different schools, including 6,000 children.

According to a Xaverian Missionary Newsletter of 1999, Mosele was captured by the rebel army in Kambia near Guinea on February 11, 1999. He had turned back in an effort to acquire medicine for the wounded when he was met by the RUF rebels and taken to Makeni.

On September 6 he was captured again along with Fr. Franco Manganello at Pamelap near the border of Guinea. In one of Mosele's accounts of his experiences in Sierra Leone, he recalls that the very individuals who captured him had been part of the schools he established. On October 4, 2000 Pope John Paul II made an appeal at his general audience to the rebel army for peace and for the release of Frs. Victor Mosele and Franco Manganello.

Recent History

Fr. Mosele is currently at the campus ministry center, [http://www.stpaulscc.org] in Madison, WI, but was briefly stationed at Illinois State University's [http://www.isucatholic.org St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Center] along with Fr. Antonio Dittmer during the 2005-06 school year. He has also written a book about his experiences titled Running For My Life, which was published in Fall 2006.

External links

* [http://www.xaviermissionaries.org/M_Life/NewsArchive/AmericaNews/US_PriestStory.htm Story of Survival]
* [http://www.xaviermissionaries.org/M_Life/NewsArchive/AmericaNews/US_MoseleCampus.htm Campus Ministry]
*cite web|url=http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/magburaka.shtml|title=Rebel Forces Attack Magburaka|work=E-World -- Sierra Leone, et al|first=James|last=Tully|year=1998
* [http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_20001004_en.html Pope John Paul II General Audience Wednesday October 4, 2000]
* [http://www.onlinehomilies.com/cachedrecordings/recording-1046-8.mp3 Homily and Personal Account of Victor Mosele regarding Sierra Leone]
* [http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews1000.html Sierra Leone News Archives]
* [https://www.theobooks.org/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1340 Running For My Life -- Fr. Victor Mosele's book]