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CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES KIDNAPPED IN HAITI
The Daily Mail ^ | October 17, 2021 | Natasha Anderson

Posted on 10/17/2021 8:35:59 AM PDT by littleharbour

“PLEASE PRAY FOR US!! WE ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE”. 16 AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR CHILDREN, PLUS A CANADIAN CITIZEN, ARE KIDNAPPED BY ARMED GANG MEMBERS IN HAITI AS ABDUCTEE SENDS A SECRET WHATSAPP MESSAGE DURING ABDUCTION.

A group of Christian missionaries and their family members were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince.

The missionaries were abducted from a bus headed to the airport to drop off some members of the group before continuing to another destination in Haiti, a report by the New York Times stated, citing security officials from the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation.

The missionaries — which include 16 Americans, a Canadian citizen and several children — were taken in the area of La Tremblay by what was believed to be members of the 400 Mawozo gang, the Miami Herald reported.

A person familiar with the situation claims one of the abducted Americans posted a cry for help in a WhatsApp group as the kidnapping was occurring.

'Please pray for us!! We are being held hostage, they kidnapped our driver. Pray pray pray. We don't know where they are taking us,' the abductee said.

The US government has been made aware of the kidnapping reports and officials at the American embassy are reportedly looking into the situation.

Meanwhile, thousands of Haitian migrants have fled the country, which is vastly controlled by gangs, and come to the US in the last month. The mass exodus follows the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse who was fatally shot at his private residence on July 7.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: border; chistians; haiti; kidnapping; missionaries
Pay no attention to the thousands of “law abiding” single male Haitians crossing the southern US border.
1 posted on 10/17/2021 8:35:59 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: littleharbour

Americans in stranded or in danger abroad are the Biden Admin’s top priority ... and other jokes heard in a bar.


2 posted on 10/17/2021 8:39:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: littleharbour

So the unvaccinated Navy Seals can’t go rescue them, right?


3 posted on 10/17/2021 8:49:20 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: littleharbour

Come on man! I can both with such trivia as hostages right now Hunter has an art show opening next week!


4 posted on 10/17/2021 8:53:28 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: littleharbour

‘Please pray for us!!’

Instead of praying, they should have used logic and avoided the 3rd world shithole of Haiti.


5 posted on 10/17/2021 8:55:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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Coming soon to a theater near you: Attack of the Super Teens


6 posted on 10/17/2021 9:05:12 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imaginationd)
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To: littleharbour

If not for the European colonialists that settled and established somewhat civilized law abiding entities in the third world, would the indigenous people have been worse or better off?? I’d like to see this hypothetical situation evaluated by leftists and the media that are obsessed with promoting righteousness of indigenous peoples and the “evil” of settlers. Where would the indigenous peoples be had they been walled off from outside influences?


7 posted on 10/17/2021 9:07:48 AM PDT by apoliticalone (SOCIAL JUSTICE is as much about justice as PATRIOT ACT is about patriotism. It''s called political )
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To: littleharbour

60-80k headed towards our border and once in the US most are heading to Florida from what I have been reading.

Poor Florida.


8 posted on 10/17/2021 9:10:55 AM PDT by setter
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To: EEGator

Maybe they should re-examine their resistance to their doctrine of non-resistance.

They will not use force to protect themselves or others. Will they ask for the government (use of force) to rescue them now? Or will they quietly accept their fate?


9 posted on 10/17/2021 9:53:23 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: littleharbour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIjgWe0hwgg

“Make Missions Local Again” by Michael Foster

Plenty of thing the church could be doing right here in the US instead of spending time and money trying to convert a bunch of believers of voodoo.

Get your own house in order.


10 posted on 10/17/2021 9:57:30 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: littleharbour

Only Haitians can “save” Haiti. Anyone else should stay the hell away. Haiti is Haiti because Haitians want it that way.


11 posted on 10/17/2021 10:00:37 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Pollard

When you find out which organization they were with, and do a bit of research, you will find out how applicable your idea of getting their own house in order is.


12 posted on 10/17/2021 10:01:53 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: JimSp

I believe in God.
I believe in killing those who would kill me.
I believe in avoiding “African” countries.

These Christians should stay in America, where plenty of people need help.


13 posted on 10/17/2021 10:03:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Organic Panic

Trump would have had them out of there by now. No doubt. The crazed leftist will not help because they are Christians. Sick people.


14 posted on 10/17/2021 10:23:08 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: EEGator
#5: " they should have used logic and avoided the 3rd world sh**hole of Haiti."

Right you are. The average IQ in Haiti is 67. No overcoming that.

Naive missionaries. Haiti is unfixable. French missionaries couldn't do anything for those people 200 years ago. Voodoo is their religion. Even ostensibly civilized Haitians practice voodoo.

It would take mighty spiritual armor to tame Haiti and overcome Satan. And nothing is going to overcome their intrinsic IQ deficit.

15 posted on 10/17/2021 10:28:03 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They murdered all the white people on the island.
Now they can live like Wakandans in their self created Utopia.


16 posted on 10/17/2021 10:30:28 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: littleharbour

They should have sent gps info from a phone.


17 posted on 10/17/2021 10:31:07 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: apoliticalone

If European colonists didn’t arrive, the population of Hispaniola would have been Arawak, unless the Caribs had annihilated them.

Can’t argue any benefit for the indigenous there. They’re pretty much extinct.

People would generally rather rule themselves badly that be governed well by another people. Not quite give me liberty of give me death, but something of the kind.


18 posted on 10/17/2021 11:14:20 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.uad)
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