I have another article in my blog for December 2009 where Christian missionaries had kidnapped children in India and police help had to be taken to free them. Now 10 missionaries have been arrested in Haiti for Kidnapping.
Please spread the news to all poor people in India. Never trust your children with these missionaries.
Read the article below from CNN.
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U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti
Feb 5, 2010.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said.
Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue's announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at the prosecutor's office.
Under Haitian law, anyone accused of kidnapping a child is not eligible for bail, the attorney general's office said.
Conviction on the kidnapping charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; the criminal association charge carries a penalty of three to nine years, according to a former justice minister.
Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN's "Larry King Live" on Thursday night that the judge in the case has three months to decide whether to prosecute.
"We hope that he will decide long before those three months," he said. "He can release them, he can ask to prosecute them."
If a decision is made to prosecute, the case would be heard before a jury, he said.
Told that the families of the detained Americans had pleaded for him to intervene, Bellerive said he could not.
"Those people are not in the hands of the government; they are in the hands of justice," he said. "We have to respect the law. It is clear that the people violated the law. What we have to understand is if they did it in good faith."
Bellerive said the Haitian government was open to the possibility of the case being transferred to a U.S. court but said the request would have to come from the United States. "Until now, I was not asked," he said.
He expressed gratitude for the work of the vast majority of Americans who have helped in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that he said killed at least 212,000 people.
The Americans were turned back Friday as they tried to take the children across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. They said they were going to house them in a converted hotel in that country and later move them to an orphanage they were building there.
"We can confirm that the 10 American citizens remain in custody in Haiti," said State Department deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid. "We continue to provide appropriate consular assistance and to monitor developments in the legal case."
The Americans have said they were just trying to help the children leave the earthquake-stricken country.
Some of the detained Americans have said they thought they were helping orphans, but their interpreters said Wednesday that they were present when group members spoke with the children's parents. Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince said they had willingly given their children over to the Americans, who promised them a better life and who said they could see their children whenever they wanted to.
Government approval is needed for any Haitian child to leave the country, and the group acknowledged that the children had no passports.
Some members of the group belong to the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho. One of the church's ministers asked for privacy and would not discuss the matter.
"I know you have many questions but we don't have answers right now," Drew Ham, assistant pastor, said in a note to reporters.
P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, has said that U.S. officials have been given unlimited consular access to the Americans and that U.S. and Haitian authorities are "working to try to ascertain what happened [and] the motive behind these people.
"Clearly, there are questions about procedure as to whether they had the appropriate paperwork to move the children," he said Wednesday.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
India is just one earthquake away from Christinisation
India is just one earthquake away from Christianization.
I found this article on Washington post, it was dated 13th Feb 2010. Just look at how missionaries are taking advantage of poor Haitians and converting them by exploiting their helplessness.
These people will not listen to reason and law should be in place in India to completely stop missionaries from coming to India. Also all current missionary activities supported by foreign funds should be banned.
Just one natural calamity these people would be all over the place to exploit peoples helplessness.
Article is below.
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Tension among Haiti's religions grows after quake
By Paisley Dodds ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Christian and Voodoo leaders put aside their differences for a moment Friday, joining hands under a canopy of tropical trees as some earthquake survivors on crutches and in wheelchairs mourned the more than 200,000 Haitians killed by an earthquake one month ago.
The catastrophe has driven a wedge between Haiti's religions as Christian groups make inroads among shaken Voodoo followers -- some drawn by the steady flow of aid through evangelical missions and others frightened by a disaster they saw as a warning from God.
"People see rice being distributed in front of churches and those homeless now needing papers are being offered baptism certificates that can act as identity documents," Voodoo priest Max Beauvoir told The Associated Press before speaking at Friday's service. "The horrible thing though is that by rejecting Voodoo these people are rejecting their ancestors and history. Voodoo is the soul of the Haitian people. Without it, the people are lost."
Beauvoir said it took weeks of negotiations to arrange his participation in Friday's ceremony, and that some didn't want Voodoo represented in Port-au-Prince on Friday's national day of mourning.
Haitians gathered under the shade of mimosa and powderpuff trees and flooded the streets of the capital in prayer, climbing atop the rubble of destroyed churches and spilling into parks where they stretched their arms to the skies. Hymns reverberated throughout the shattered city.
President Rene Preval broke down in tears, wiping his eyes with a handkerchief as his wife tried to console him.
"The pain is too heavy -- words cannot describe it," Preval said in one of the first major public addresses he has made in weeks.
After the quake, evangelical U.S. broadcaster Pat Robertson said Haiti had been cursed after its slave founders made a "pact with the devil." The White House called the remark "stupid" but some Haitians wonder if God may be angry for their close ties to the spirit world.
"The earthquake scared me," said Veronique Malot, a 24-year-old who joined an evangelical church two weeks ago when she found herself living in one of the city's many outdoor camps. "Voodoo has been in my family but the government isn't helping us. The only people giving aid are the Christian churches."
Christians have spearheaded international disaster relief in Haiti and the rest of the developing world for decades.
Baptists, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, Mormons and other missionaries have flocked to Haiti in droves since the earthquake -- feeding the homeless, treating the injured and preaching the Gospel in squalid camps where some 1 million people now live.
In many of the camps, trucks with loudspeakers blast evangelical music while missionaries talk to families under tarpaulin roofs.
The Rev. Florian Ganthier, of an evangelical church that was partially destroyed in the quake, said he knows of dozens of Voodoo followers who have converted in the last month.
"People who practice Voodoo are living in the shadows," Ganthier said. "This earthquake was a sign to all those who do not accept Jesus Christ in their life."
Voodoo, or Vodou as preferred by Haitians, evolved in the 17th century when the French brought slaves to Haiti from West Africa. Slaves forced to practice Catholicism remained loyal to their African spirits in secret by adopting Catholic saints to coincide with African spirits, and today many Haitians consider themselves followers of both religions.
Voodoo's followers believe in reincarnation, one God and a pantheon of spirits. Voodoo leaders say that although they do not believe in evil spirits, some followers pray for the spirits to do evil.
In 1791, an escaped slave named Boukman gathered thousands of followers in the forests of northern Haiti, sacrificed a wild boar and pledged that with the spirits' help, he would liberate his people and free Haiti. After 10 years of bloodshed, slavery ended and Haiti became the world's first black republic, making Boukman a hero and giving special prominence to Voodoo.
Still, Voodoo worshippers have been persecuted. A church-led campaign in the 1940s led to the destruction of temples and sacred objects. Hollywood films sensationalizing Voodoo and legends of the undead pushed the practice further underground.
Voodoo became recognized as a formal religion in Haiti only in 1987, under a new constitution that recognizes the rights of all religions.
Many missionaries who have flocked to the country since the earthquake say their goals in Haiti are strictly humanitarian.
"We're not here to practice our religion," said Chris Hermensen, a Mormon nurse who came after the quake to help treat patients in several hospitals. "We tell people what are beliefs are but we treat everyone the same. We're here to help right now."
At Friday's mourning ceremony, Preval urged support for the government despite multiplying protests over government failures to provide food and shelter to those left homeless by the quake. Some aid groups have also complained of government dithering over moving people to safe shelter in advance of the coming rains.
In a sign of a return to normality, officials announced that commercial passenger flights would resume at Haiti's international airport on Feb. 19. American Airlines was accepting reservations online but said it would not make a definitive commitment to starting that day. Small commercial planes have been operating between neighboring Dominican Republic and Port-au-Prince's small national airport.
Meanwhile, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan delegation on a half-day visit to Port-au-Prince, meeting Preval and visiting aid distribution sites and medical facilities.
I found this article on Washington post, it was dated 13th Feb 2010. Just look at how missionaries are taking advantage of poor Haitians and converting them by exploiting their helplessness.
These people will not listen to reason and law should be in place in India to completely stop missionaries from coming to India. Also all current missionary activities supported by foreign funds should be banned.
Just one natural calamity these people would be all over the place to exploit peoples helplessness.
Article is below.
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Tension among Haiti's religions grows after quake
By Paisley Dodds ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Christian and Voodoo leaders put aside their differences for a moment Friday, joining hands under a canopy of tropical trees as some earthquake survivors on crutches and in wheelchairs mourned the more than 200,000 Haitians killed by an earthquake one month ago.
The catastrophe has driven a wedge between Haiti's religions as Christian groups make inroads among shaken Voodoo followers -- some drawn by the steady flow of aid through evangelical missions and others frightened by a disaster they saw as a warning from God.
"People see rice being distributed in front of churches and those homeless now needing papers are being offered baptism certificates that can act as identity documents," Voodoo priest Max Beauvoir told The Associated Press before speaking at Friday's service. "The horrible thing though is that by rejecting Voodoo these people are rejecting their ancestors and history. Voodoo is the soul of the Haitian people. Without it, the people are lost."
Beauvoir said it took weeks of negotiations to arrange his participation in Friday's ceremony, and that some didn't want Voodoo represented in Port-au-Prince on Friday's national day of mourning.
Haitians gathered under the shade of mimosa and powderpuff trees and flooded the streets of the capital in prayer, climbing atop the rubble of destroyed churches and spilling into parks where they stretched their arms to the skies. Hymns reverberated throughout the shattered city.
President Rene Preval broke down in tears, wiping his eyes with a handkerchief as his wife tried to console him.
"The pain is too heavy -- words cannot describe it," Preval said in one of the first major public addresses he has made in weeks.
After the quake, evangelical U.S. broadcaster Pat Robertson said Haiti had been cursed after its slave founders made a "pact with the devil." The White House called the remark "stupid" but some Haitians wonder if God may be angry for their close ties to the spirit world.
"The earthquake scared me," said Veronique Malot, a 24-year-old who joined an evangelical church two weeks ago when she found herself living in one of the city's many outdoor camps. "Voodoo has been in my family but the government isn't helping us. The only people giving aid are the Christian churches."
Christians have spearheaded international disaster relief in Haiti and the rest of the developing world for decades.
Baptists, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, Mormons and other missionaries have flocked to Haiti in droves since the earthquake -- feeding the homeless, treating the injured and preaching the Gospel in squalid camps where some 1 million people now live.
In many of the camps, trucks with loudspeakers blast evangelical music while missionaries talk to families under tarpaulin roofs.
The Rev. Florian Ganthier, of an evangelical church that was partially destroyed in the quake, said he knows of dozens of Voodoo followers who have converted in the last month.
"People who practice Voodoo are living in the shadows," Ganthier said. "This earthquake was a sign to all those who do not accept Jesus Christ in their life."
Voodoo, or Vodou as preferred by Haitians, evolved in the 17th century when the French brought slaves to Haiti from West Africa. Slaves forced to practice Catholicism remained loyal to their African spirits in secret by adopting Catholic saints to coincide with African spirits, and today many Haitians consider themselves followers of both religions.
Voodoo's followers believe in reincarnation, one God and a pantheon of spirits. Voodoo leaders say that although they do not believe in evil spirits, some followers pray for the spirits to do evil.
In 1791, an escaped slave named Boukman gathered thousands of followers in the forests of northern Haiti, sacrificed a wild boar and pledged that with the spirits' help, he would liberate his people and free Haiti. After 10 years of bloodshed, slavery ended and Haiti became the world's first black republic, making Boukman a hero and giving special prominence to Voodoo.
Still, Voodoo worshippers have been persecuted. A church-led campaign in the 1940s led to the destruction of temples and sacred objects. Hollywood films sensationalizing Voodoo and legends of the undead pushed the practice further underground.
Voodoo became recognized as a formal religion in Haiti only in 1987, under a new constitution that recognizes the rights of all religions.
Many missionaries who have flocked to the country since the earthquake say their goals in Haiti are strictly humanitarian.
"We're not here to practice our religion," said Chris Hermensen, a Mormon nurse who came after the quake to help treat patients in several hospitals. "We tell people what are beliefs are but we treat everyone the same. We're here to help right now."
At Friday's mourning ceremony, Preval urged support for the government despite multiplying protests over government failures to provide food and shelter to those left homeless by the quake. Some aid groups have also complained of government dithering over moving people to safe shelter in advance of the coming rains.
In a sign of a return to normality, officials announced that commercial passenger flights would resume at Haiti's international airport on Feb. 19. American Airlines was accepting reservations online but said it would not make a definitive commitment to starting that day. Small commercial planes have been operating between neighboring Dominican Republic and Port-au-Prince's small national airport.
Meanwhile, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan delegation on a half-day visit to Port-au-Prince, meeting Preval and visiting aid distribution sites and medical facilities.
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