Posts Tagged ‘haiti’
9th US missionary freed in Haiti, returns home (AP)
AP – A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in custody.
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Freed missionary arrives in US from Haiti jail (AP)
AP – One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti has arrived in the U.S. after being released after more than a month in custody.
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Haiti frees US missionary; group leader still held (AP)
AP – One of two U.S. Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released Monday, but the group’s leader remained in custody.
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Orphanage director: Haiti holds 6 US-bound kids (AP)
AP – Six U.S.-bound orphans seized by Haitian police despite having their papers in order remained in a government-run nursery more than two days later, the orphanage director said.
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8 jailed American missionaries leave Haiti for US (AP)
AP – Eight American missionaries charged with child kidnapping and jailed for nearly three weeks have left for Miami. The group took off on a US Air Force C-130 cargo plane late Wednesday night. Reporters watched as the plane left the tarmac. Officials from the US State Department and the US Embassy who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed that the Americans were on the plane that left.
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Haiti judge frees 8 of 10 American missionaries (AP)
AP – Eight American missionaries were freed from a Haitian jail Wednesday, nearly three weeks after being charged with kidnapping for trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country.
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Haiti judge says 8 of 10 missionaries to be freed (AP)
AP – A Haitian judge said Wednesday he is freeing eight of 10 U.S. Baptists charged with child kidnapping after parents testified they voluntarily handed their children over to the missionaries.
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