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Christian Missionaries arrested in Haiti have triggered some unexpected fallout, including stigmatizing adoption of foreign-born children and even backlash against Christian charity. Here are just a few of the reactions across the blogosphere:
Christian News- Haiti Arrests of Baptist missionaries could trigger adoption backlash- Christian News Top Story
3. February 2010 by admin.
Baptist prof fears Haiti arrests will set back adoption movement- associated baptist press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist seminary professor says the arrests of a group of Baptists from the United States accused of trying to remove children from earthquake-stricken Haiti without proper documentation could give a black eye to a budding movement of evangelicals who view adoption as a means of spreading the gospel.
Russell Moore, senior vice president for academic administration and dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recounted his reaction to hearing the news that 10 Americans accused of human trafficking were members of Baptist churches Feb. 1 on the “Albert Mohler Radio Program.”
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4798/53/
The issue of what the Christian knew or did not know about the children actually having parents seems to be in doubt.
The 10 Americans who were arrested in Haiti last week for attempting to illegally transport 33 children out of the country ignored warnings that their plans were against the law, an American human rights advocate told the United Nations in an e-mail.
The new revelations paint a darker picture of the Americans who are sitting in a Haitian jail in Port-au-Prince awaiting a hearing to determine their future.
On January 29, a group of Americans from Idaho, Texas, and Kansas were arrested at the Haitian-Dominican Republic border when they failed to present proper paperwork for 33 children in their custody. The children ranged in age from two months to 12 years old, and had their names scribbled on tape affixed to their shirts. The group told border guards that the children were all orphans, and that they planned to take them to a hotel at a Dominican resort until a more permanent orphanage could be built.
While the latter story paints a “darker picture, the Christian Missionaries arrested in Haiti stand by their conviction that they did not know these children had parents:
Baptist group arrested in Haiti denies trafficking charge- APB News
A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4796/53/
The anti-christians are using this moment to attack any and all Christian charity from being accepted in worldwide disaster events:
Missionaries in Haiti arrested for kidnapping children
I hope one day christian groups will be banned from serving earthquake, hurricane, tsunami ect victims. We ALWAYS see issues rising when Christian groups try to “help”.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Aid workers in Haiti reunited Tuesday with their families some of the 33 children that a US missionary group tried to sneak out of the shattered country without government authorization.
http://answeringchristians.blogspot.com/2010/02/missionaries-in-haiti-arrested-for.html
Finally, listen to the Christian Missionaries arrested in Haiti themselves:
Video: Haitian Magistrate meeting with arrested Christian Missionaries
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No matter what the outcome here, loving people who don’t love us will be and always has been hard work.
The US State Department has many warnings about travel to the Dominical Republic and to Haiti, and what kind of legal troubles you can expect there. And the kind I am referring to is extortion, and wrongful prosecution and the fact that the police and government officials expect to get paid off in bribes.
For Haiti to pull this on the world stages to me is reprehensible. They have not apologized for their failure to provide for their own children, failure to provide for the families, nor even their own deceased with respectful burial grounds. And yet they are the first to come down heavy on these so called missionaries. They have an estimated 212,000 dead from the earth quake.
My friend from Haiti just came back recently from being there for two weeks and he told me that the earth has been shaking continuously. He said that the people are fighting over food and his family refuses to fight for food. I wonder where do they get their food from. He said they have no privacy, they live in the street. Everything is done in the street.
What does the government of Haiti stand to gain with a very high population of homeless and parentless children? Is Haiti using their children as a commodity? I wonder. They are pointing the finger at the missionaries, but they have no answers for their own ills.