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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.
The 33 children had been living at the SOS Orphanage on Port-au-Prince‘s outskirts since police stopped a group of 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries from taking them across the Dominican border
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)–Laura Silsby, the last of 10 Baptist missions volunteers detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping, now faces a new charge.
Silsby, who led the team, now is accused of attempting to take 40 children out of Haiti without proper paperwork on Jan. 26, three days before the 10-member team was prevented from crossing the border into the Dominican Republic with 33 children.
Policeman are silhouetted in the headlights of a truck as a fire burns in Port-au-Prince in January
WASHINGTON — Four American nationals have been murdered in the Haitian capital since the January 12 quake, the United States said Monday, stepping up its travel warning after a high-profile kidnapping.
Updating its advice to travelers after it emerged last week that kidnappers had abducted and later freed two European aid workers, the State Department added a special section on crime-related threats.
BOISE, Idaho — A U.S. missionary released from a Haiti jail last week has returned to her home in Idaho.
Twenty-four-year-old Charisa Coulter arrived at the Boise Airport Saturday night where her father, several other Idaho missionaries who had been detained, and dozens of others welcomed her by singing “Amazing Grace.”
The judge in the case of the 10 American Baptist missionaries accused of trying to take 33 Haitian children from the country without proper authorization charged all of them Friday with “organizing irregular travel.”
WASHINGTON- The judge in the case of the 10 American Baptist missionaries accused of trying to take 33 Haitian children from the country without proper authorization charged all of them Friday with “organizing irregular travel.”
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