article_snippet: Friends described Phyllis Sortor as courageous, tenacious and passionate about helping the people of Nigeria and said Phyllis' was aware of the dangers.
article_snippet: Phyllis' friends say Phyllis' was passionate about helping people in Nigeria and aware of the dangers of working there .
article_snippet: Phyllis' had spent years living in Africa, including Mozambique - where Phyllis' spent much of Phyllis' childhood - later working in Rwanda and, since 2005, Nigeria, Kendall said .
article_snippet: Phyllis' work in Kogi was focused primarily on educational development and conflict resolution between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities who frequently clash in central Nigeria's Middle Belt region, the church statement further said.