article_snippet: (CNN)American missionary Phyllis Sortor, who was kidnapped last month by masked gunmen in central Nigeria, has been freed, a U.S. official confirmed Friday.
article_snippet: Five men abducted Sortor, a missionary from Seattle with the Free Methodist Church, from a U.S. official workplace February 23 and demanded a ransom of 60 million Naira ($301,500), Kogi state police Commissioner Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi said.
article_snippet: American missionary Phyllis Sortor runs a nongovernmental organization that educates nomadic Fulani children, the police commissioner said.
highlights_snippet: American missionary Phyllis Sortor was kidnapped by masked gunmen in central Nigeria on February 23 .
  
highlights_snippet: Sortor, who was affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, has been released, an official said Friday .