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US missionaries trapped in Haiti beg for help amid violent gang takeover: ‘The gunfire never stops’
NYpost.com ^ | 3/12/24 | Jeannie Taer

Posted on 03/12/2024 11:48:58 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

US missionaries trapped in Haiti beg for help amid violent gang takeover: ‘The gunfire never stops’

US missionaries trapped in Haiti say they are worried nobody is coming to rescue them as gang violence and lawlessness tear the country apart, leaving dead bodies piled up in the streets.

Jill Dolan and her family are trapped in the country, sheltering in place at a makeshift motel in capital Port-au-Prince — where most of the violence has been concentrated — awaiting an evacuation, while gunfire can be heard outside day and night.

Dolan, who helps run an orphanage in Haiti through her organization Love A Neighbor, said she is in contact with the US Embassy, but little help has been offered.

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To: PGR88

Why should they? There’s plenty of well-meaning American kids to do it for them and gain virtue-signaling points. I recall there was an African leader who was telling the West to quit sending them food and clothes because relying on charity was killing their economy. Nobody was willing to do anything on their own.


21 posted on 03/12/2024 12:13:22 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: wrcase
I recall there was an African leader who was telling the West to quit sending them food and clothes because relying on charity was killing their economy.

This is the article, and he makes a lot of sense. He's actually a Kenyan economist.

"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"

22 posted on 03/12/2024 12:16:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PGR88
why can’t the local Haitian members nail sheet metal to a roof?

I don't believe they work.

23 posted on 03/12/2024 12:16:46 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Haiti became the first free black republic in the world, the first independent state in the Caribbean and the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. Although violence is declining, Haiti remains one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere.

Hmm, not setting a good example.

24 posted on 03/12/2024 12:19:16 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, the Dominican Republic is doing just fine.


25 posted on 03/12/2024 12:21:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

LOL


26 posted on 03/12/2024 12:22:21 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: dfwgator
Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, the Dominican Republic is doing just fine.

So it's not so much the geography as it is the leadership and people.

27 posted on 03/12/2024 12:23:08 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: PGR88
Some of my family members did the same thing. My question is, how many people did you tell Jesus about? Isn't that what this is all about? Helping them out, yes, feeding them yes, but at some point there is something better

The Lord fed the 5000 and all had their fill. You know He fed them well and with good food. They came back looking for more and He was basically saying that is not how this works. You need His Body and Blood to be saved.

28 posted on 03/12/2024 12:27:33 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: 1Old Pro
So it's not so much the geography as it is the leadership and people.

Also, the Dominican Republic did not consecrate their nation to a Voodoo God, so there is that as well.

29 posted on 03/12/2024 12:28:43 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Cannibalism is increasing.

For the New World Order we need a cannibalism index.


30 posted on 03/12/2024 12:34:20 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: PGR88

“it also reinforces leftist white guilt, and woke-progressive-globalist ways of thinking for these suburban American kids.

Yes, I’m a cynical bastard - flame away.”

Good post. You nailed it.


31 posted on 03/12/2024 12:36:23 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I fear that... thing might surface soon in a nightmare! Wish I could un-see it.


32 posted on 03/12/2024 12:46:18 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: dfwgator

He took Sam Kinison’s advice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K44DriPrLUk


33 posted on 03/12/2024 1:00:44 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

A real prez would have the Marines OTW with orders to do what’s necessary to get Americans out.


34 posted on 03/12/2024 1:03:06 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: frogjerk
The Lord fed the 5000 and all had their fill. You know He fed them well and with good food. They came back looking for more and He was basically saying that is not how this works. You need His Body and Blood to be saved.

Actually, you need faith in Christ, and only Christ, to be saved.

35 posted on 03/12/2024 1:05:08 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I spent a summer as a teenager helping build a church. The area was very remote and the people were unbelievably poor, but the local Christians were so joyful and loving. It was a farming community and yes, they did work. There was a group there that practiced voodoo too and boy did they hate that church and us. They marched around our compound and church chanting curses.

It was such a stark contrast of good and evil. I’m sad to hear the evil is winning there 😞 the missionaries that planted the church and others lived closer to Port Au Prince and I often wonder how they are doing.


36 posted on 03/12/2024 1:10:37 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Soldiers of the Cross sometimes become martyrs. That’s a likely outcome for these missionaries.


37 posted on 03/12/2024 1:11:24 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Won’t be the first missionaries in history to be cannabalized. I hear they are delicious if boiled alive like lobsters.


38 posted on 03/12/2024 1:35:12 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

IF they trans people, Biden would get them right out...


39 posted on 03/12/2024 1:52:04 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Languager
Why would they go abroad in the first place?

You claim to be a Christian, you should know the answer.......

40 posted on 03/12/2024 1:58:21 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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