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The remaining Catholic clergy who were kidnapped in Haiti earlier in April, including a French priest and nun, have been released, a missionary group said Friday.
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April 25, 2021 Tatjana Muskiet
Three members of the Catholic clergy kidnapped in Haiti earlier month this have been released, officials say. But seven other people – including a French nun and a French priest – abducted in the town of Croix-des-Bouquets remain in captivity. The kidnappers had demanded $1m (£722,000) as a ransom payment after they seized the group on 11 April. Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has vowed to “do everything the law allows” to secure their release. “Three of the seven clergy kidnapped on April 11 were released,” Father Loudger Mazile, spokesman for the Bishop’s Conference of the island nation, told the AFP on Thursday. “The French were not released. There were no lay people among those released,” he said. It is not known whether any ransom has been paid. The attack happened when the Catholic clergy were on their way to the installation of a new parish priest.(BBC)…[+]
Three of seven Catholic clergy kidnapped in Haiti are released
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23/04/2021 - 02:03 A street in Port-au-Prince, where anger has grown in recent weeks at the violence and unrest in Haiti Valerie Baeriswyl AFP/File 2 min
Port-au-Prince (AFP)
Three of seven Catholic clergy who were kidnapped in Haiti earlier this month have been released, a Church spokesman told AFP on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with a rise in violence and ongoing political crisis.
A total of 10 people were abducted in Croix-des-Bouquets, a town northeast of the capital Port-au-Prince, in mid-April, including the seven clergy five of them Haitian, as well as two French citizens, a priest and a nun.