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American missionary freed by North Korea (AP)

In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, American missionary Robert Park speaks about his crossing the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China last December. North Korea said on Friday it has decided to free the detained American missionary who crossed its border to raise human rights issues. Robert Park slipped across the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to shut the country's camps for political prisoners and step down from power.(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)AP – An American missionary arrived in Beijing on Saturday after being freed by North Korea, which had detained him for illegally crossing its border from China on Christmas Day.


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Lawyer: Missionary leader to blame for kidnap case (AP)

Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, left, both of Boise, Idaho, are escorted out of the court building in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The ten Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the earthquake, were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association, after a judge found sufficient evidence to file the charges, according to their Haitian lawyer Edwin Coq.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Ten Baptist missionaries are facing kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country, and the lawyer for all the defendants is putting the blame on the group’s leader.


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Students help missionary team on its way to Haiti

Rescuers pull survivor from Haiti quake rubble
Stunned rescuers wrenched a survivor from the rubble after 12 days entombed in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital, where desperate crowds clamoured yesterday for more and quicker relief.

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NGO worker reports from Haiti
As People in Need’s Haiti relief coordinator, Kutilová says it will take years to rebuild Port-au-Prince. The Czech Republic has contributed 80 million Kč ($4.4 million) to relief efforts in Haiti thus far.

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Long Hill’s Stirling Hotel to match donations to Haiti relief
LONG HILL TWP. – A Haiti Earthquake Relief Fundraiser organized by a Bernards Township couple to help Heartline Ministries deliver vital services in Haiti will be held Thursday, Jan. 28, through Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Stirling Hotel, 227 Main Ave., Stirling.

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Be alert to online pleas to aid Haiti
WASHINGTON — The FBI is reminding Internet users who receive appeals to donate money in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti to apply a critical eye and do some research before responding to requests.

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Students help missionary team on its way to Haiti
Pastors Preston Edmonds and Greg Edmonds load supplies collected by teachers and students at Mayo Elementary School. Greg Edmonds will take the supplies to Haiti as he begins a 10-day medical mission trip.

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