Christian Aid Ministries (CAM) has received prayers from around the world, including from children, for its missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti in October.
Seventeen people, including an eight-month-old baby and four children, were taken hostage by a gang in capital Port-au-Prince while returning from a visit to an orphanage. They had also been supporting school children, distributing Bibles and Christian literature, supplying medicine for clinics, teaching Haitian pastors and providing food for the elderly and vulnerable.
One three-year-old child prayed that ‘the naughty people would become good’. Another five-year-old child prayed that ‘the baby could have milk and the mums and dads and children could have food’ and ‘that there would be an angel sent that could maybe help them’.
Since the kidnapping a video was released showing the leader of the Mawozo gang (see photo from YouTube) threatening to kill those abducted if their demands are not met. Haitian officials have said the gang is seeking a $US1million ransom per person, although it wasn’t clear if that includes the five children seized.
CAM has put in place a special network of global prayer support to support the hostages and their families. Every 15 minutes, day and night, the torch of prayer is passed on. Some time periods have over 20 individuals or groups praying at once.
Prayers and messages of support have come from countries including Haiti, the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Eswatini, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland, Ukraine, Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Brazil.
