Freed US nurse says Christian song was her rallying cry after she was kidnapped in Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti AP A US nurse who was released by kidnappers in Haiti last week says a Christian song called See a Victory became her battle cry after she and her young daughter were abducted. Alix Dorsainvil and her child were freed Wednesday, nearly two weeks after they were snatched at gunpoint from the campus of a Christian-run […]
US nurse, child safely released in Haiti two weeks after kidnapping
Reuters A US nurse and her child have been safely released after their kidnapping in Haiti two weeks ago, a faith-based humanitarian aid organisation where the nurse works said on Wednesday. View shows the “El Roi”, a Christian community site where the American nurse Alix Dorsainvil used to work before being kidnapped with her child, […]
Fifty migrants kidnapped from Mexican bus
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security forces are searching for about 50 migrants who were kidnapped from a commercial bus, authorities said Wednesday. The kidnapping took place in the central state of San Luis Potosi, the Attorney General’s Office there said. The bus, whose two drivers were also missing, was discovered further north in the border […]
Deadlier and more media savvy, separatist rebels evolve in Indonesia’s Papua
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Egianus Kogoya, the dreadlocked rebel behind the kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot this month in the highlands of Indonesia’s Papua region, is at the vanguard of an increasingly dangerous and media-savvy insurgency for independence. Separatist rebels kidnapped New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens, 37, after he landed his small plane in the […]
German aid worker freed after kidnapping four years ago in Niger, says employer
Dakar, SenegalReuters A 63-year-old German aid worker, Joerg Lange, has been freed more than four years after he was kidnapped in western Niger near the Malian border, his employer, humanitarian organisation Help, said in a statement on Saturday. Armed men on motorcycles kidnapped Lange in April, 2018, near the Nigerien town of Inates in borderlands […]
Catholic priest kidnapped in northern Nigeria, diocese says
Kaduna, Nigeria Reuters A Nigerian priest was kidnapped from his home in northern Kaduna state, the local Roman Catholic diocese said in a statement on Tuesday, in the first such reported abduction of a clergyman in the state since July. Armed gangs are rife across northern Nigeria where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and […]
Gunmen kidnap dozens of children from Nigerian farm, police say
Kano, Nigeria Reuters Dozens of children were abducted by gunmen from a farm in northern Katsina state and the kidnappers were demanding a ransom for their release, police and residents said on Wednesday. Katsina is the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari and is among states in northwestern and north central Nigeria where armed gangs […]
“More difficult than ever”: US faith groups curb Haiti work due to chaos, 2021 kidnapping
PETER SMITH and DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, report on the impact the deteriorating situation in Haiti is having on US-based Christian aid and relief groups operating there…
In Mexico, families and activists urge more work to end disappearances
Mexico City Reuters Families of missing persons and human rights groups in Mexico called on Tuesday’s International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearances for stronger measures to fight kidnappings, including bringing more perpetrators to justice. Progress on one of Mexico’s most notorious cases of forced kidnappings appeared to play out earlier this month as a […]
Kidnapped Nigerian Catholic priest found dead, another escapes
Lagos, NigeriaReuters A Nigerian Catholic priest abducted last week was found murdered on Tuesday while his colleague managed to escaped from his captors in the northern state of Kaduna, the local diocese said. Fathers John Mark Cheitnum and Donatus Cleophas were seized in the town of Lere when attending a parish function at Christ the […]