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Parents Take Back Kids They Gave to Missionaries

Pwa — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:45 +0000

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 on Jan. 29 following Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

Haitian Judge Weighs New Charge For Silsby

Pwa — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:23:13 +0000

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.

US Warns of Haiti Murder, Kidnap Threat

Pwa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:28:49 +0000

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.

US Missionary Detained in Haiti Returns to Idaho

Pwa — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:13:01 +0000

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.”

Haiti files More Charges Against U.S. Missionaries

Pwa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:22:16 +0000

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.”

Released Aid Workers in Haiti Are Czech, Belgian

Pwa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:39:55 +0000

PRAGUE — An official says two European aid workers kidnapped in Haiti and later released were from the Czech Republic and Belgium.

Lucia Duricova of the Czech office of Doctors Without Borders confirmed the nationalities Friday. She said the two women are fine but declined to give any further details.

VIDEO:Haiti ‘Orphans’ Kept From Birth Parents

Pwa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:33 +0000

Nine of the 10 Christian missionaries that were detained in Haiti after they illegally tried to take 33 Haitian children across the border – following January’s devastating earthquake – have been freed and are now back at home in the US.

Haitian Kidnappers Release 2 European Aid Workers

Pwa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:42:34 +0000

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors Without Borders says kidnappers have released two European aid workers snatched off the streets of Port-au-Prince and held for five days.

It is the first reported kidnapping since Haiti suffered a magnitude-7 earthquake with catastrophic damage on Jan. 12. More than 5,000 prisoners fled jails that collapsed or were damaged in the temblor. About 200 have been captured.

VIDEO:Haiti Releases Another Missionary

Pwa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:23:22 +0000

(News 13) Charisa Coulter, one of the American missionaries detained for over a month in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children, has been released.

The leader of the missionary group, Laura Silsby, is still being held for allegedly trying to take the children out of the country after January’s devastating earthquake. It’s unclear if and when she’ll be released.

One American Kidnapper to be Released from Haiti Jail

Pwa — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:39:18 +0000

Leader of the group, Laura Silsby, to remain in jail
Reuters is reporting Friday that Judge Bernard Saint-Vil has signed an order to free one of two Americans who has been detained in a Port-au-Prince jail since Jan. 29, but she probably won’t be returning home until next week.

Detained US Missionary: I’d Come Back to Haiti

Pwa — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:30:46 +0000

By MICHELLE FAUL (AP)

American missionaries arrested on child kidnapping charges Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, both of Meridian, Idaho, walk towards the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, March 2, 2010