Two of 17 North American missions workers kidnapped in Haiti in mid-October were released, Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries announced.
The organization posted on its website Nov. 21 the two individuals were “safe, in good spirits” and were “being cared for.”
“We cannot provide or confirm the names of those released, the reasons for their release, where they are from, or their current location,” the message from Christian Aid Ministries stated.
The organization requested prayer for “the full resolution of this situation” and asked Christians to “lift up the remaining hostages before the Lord.”
A dozen missions workers and their five children were returning to their home base after visiting an orphanage when they were abducted Oct. 16 in Ganthier, about 20 miles east of Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince.
Christian Aid Ministries is a nonprofit ministry largely supported by Amish, Mennonite and other conservative Anabaptist churches.
The abduction of the Christian Aid Ministries missionaries occurred less than three weeks after gunmen attacked First Baptist Church in Port-au-Prince, killing 60-year-old deacon Sylner Lafaille and kidnapping his wife. Marie Marthe Laurent Lafaille was released four days later.
In late August, the U.S. State Department issued a Level 4 travel advisory for Haiti, saying, “Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest and COVID-19.”
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