American missionary Phyllis Sortor has been released by the gunmen who abducted her in Nigeria last month.
Sortor's captors let her go Friday evening, according to a statement from the Free Methodist church. The statement does not describe Sortor's condition, merely saying that she is safe and that prayers are welcome "as she processes the ordeal she has faced."
The church also declined to comment on "the efforts that were undertaken to secure her release."
Sortor, 71, was working as a school financial administrator in central Nigeria when "unknown gunman" abducted her on Feb. 23. They reportedly dragged her out of the school and "away into the bush."
According to the Seattle-based church's statement, Sortor "was aware there were risks associated with her ministry."
Sortor previously worked for years in Rwanda. She arrived in Nigeria in 2005, where she has helped set up schools and organize livestock grazing projects.