11.   The three nuns were assigned there to help carry out pastoral duties, a departure from traditional jobs like teaching.

12.   The three nuns also had difficult accepting that what they did was wrong.

13.   There was little room for the seven nuns, and almost no room for ceremony.

14.   Witnesses said that the two nuns arrived with jerrycans.

15.   Prosecutors claimed the two nuns helped the Hutu mob that repeatedly attacked Tutsis seeking shelter at the Sovu convent in the green hills of southern Rwanda.

16.   A third nun, Yvonne Pierron, who was friends with the other two nuns, also questioned the report.

17.   After fleeing Rwanda, the two nuns found sanctuary in a monastery deep in the forests of southern Belgium.

18.   An official at the Italian Embassy in Freetown, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Monday that Sankoh had confirmed the RUF is holding the seven nuns.

19.   Father Nicholas, a Franciscan priest from Mexico, denied Israeli claims the several dozen nuns and priests who stayed in the compound during the standoff were hostages.

20.   He said the archbishop and the two nuns were shot in the initial gunfire, and that he was shot when he tried to run away.