Source: International Christian Concern, October 18, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities in Haiti continue to search for a group of 17 Christians, including five children, who were kidnapped on October 16, 2021, while on assignment with Christian Aid Ministries<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The group of missionaries was returning home from building an orphanage and were abducted by the 400 Mawozo Gang in Ganthier, a community east of Haiti\u2019s capital, Port-au-Prince. The gang controls the area and is well-known for extortion, abductions, and carjackings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Guardian writes<\/a> that \u201cone of the abducted Americans managed to send a message on WhatsApp calling for help as the kidnapping took place. \u2018Please pray for us!! We are being held hostage, they kidnapped our driver. Pray pray pray. We don\u2019t know where they are taking us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More recent reports<\/a> add that the missionaries were being held in a safe house right outside the suburb by the gang, which has demanded US$17 million for their release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some updates with prayer points appear on the Christian Aid Ministries website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Christian Concern, October 18, 2021 Authorities in Haiti continue to search for a group of 17 Christians, including five children, who were kidnapped on October 16, 2021, while on assignment with Christian Aid Ministries. The group of missionaries was returning home from building an orphanage and were abducted by the 400 Mawozo Gang … Continue reading Haiti: 17 Missionaries Kidnapped by Powerful Gang<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10540,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}