Baptists Charged With Kidnapping Haitian Orphans

US missionaries detained in Port-Au-Prince

By the Associated Press

Posted Feb 4, 2010 2:42 PM CST

(AP) – Ten Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping and criminal association, their Haitian lawyer said. The Baptist missionaries, most of them members of an Idaho-based church group,... Read full story »

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