America
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For Missionary Group in a Fragile Haiti, Charity Turns to Chaos
Christian missionary workers typically labor in obscurity, running medical clinics, building wells and delivering Bibles without fanfare — until ...
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Mass Abduction of U.S. Missionaries Startles Even Kidnap-Weary Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Children on their way to school, street vendors selling their wares, priests mid-sermon — few Haitians, rich…
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What is Christian Aid Ministries and what does it do in Haiti?
Christian Aid Ministries, the charity whose workers were kidnapped in Haiti on Saturday, has a long history of working in…
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Gang suspected in kidnapping of missionaries is among the country’s most dangerous.
The gang that the police say kidnapped 17 missionaries and their family members in Haiti on Saturday is among the…
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Charities and aid groups in Haiti have been marked by scandals in the past decade.
Over the past decade the international community has sent more than $13 billion in aid to Haiti, but life for…
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American Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti, Officials Say
As many as 17 Christian missionaries from the United States and their family members, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday…
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‘Convertimos esta crisis en una gran oportunidad’: un productor de ron en Venezuela ofrece a los delincuentes una vida fuera del crimen
En el proceso, la familia que dirige la empresa, Ron Santa Teresa, ha pasado de la quiebra a exportar un…
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Minnesota’s governor calls up the National Guard to ease crowding in hospitals.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said on Friday that he would call upon the state’s National Guard to help ease…
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In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime
In the process, the family running the company, Ron Santa Teresa, has gone from bankruptcy to exporting an award-winning vintage…
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Quebec Language Debate Spurs Eerie Sense of Déjà-Vu
MONTREAL — When I go for a stroll in my Montreal neighborhood, the bourgeois-bohemian Plateau-Mont-Royal, I hear a Babel of…