Global News published this video item, entitled “Christian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti include 16 Americans, 1 Canadian citizen” – below is their description.
The U.S. State Department is investigating reports that 16 missionaries from America and one from Canada have been kidnapped in Haiti.
The missionaries – consisting of seven women, five men, and five children – were going to visit an orphanage in the impoverished country.
Organizations that monitor kidnappings there say the group was taken by a much-feared, violent gang known as the 400 Mawozo.
That gang is believed to be the same one that had already kidnapped five priests and two nuns in April, as the country sees a recent rise in kidnappings. Jennifer Johnson reports.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Haiti is a Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east. Though it’s still recovering from a 2010 earthquake, many of Haiti’s landmarks dating to the early 19th century remain intact. These include Citadelle la Ferrière, a mountaintop fortress.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (later Emperor Jacques I), defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces and declared Haiti’s sovereignty on 1 January 1804.
Haiti became the only state in history established by a successful slave revolt. Apart from Alexandre Pétion, the first President of the Republic, all of Haiti’s first leaders were former slaves.
1 thought on “Christian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti include 16 Americans, 1 Canadian citizen”
Haiti is a shithole and I have no clue why we ever try helping these animals
Same with Africa
And we all know what happens when we allow them.into our country
Crime and welfare
Haiti is a shithole and I have no clue why we ever try helping these animals
Same with Africa
And we all know what happens when we allow them.into our country
Crime and welfare