Although Christians around the world rejoiced when five of the 17 Haiti missionaries were released, the remaining 12 are still held – as en went to press – by one of the nation’s most fearsome gangs, ‘400 Mawozo’.
The hostages, who included women and children, were seized as they visited an orphanage outside the capital, Port-au-Prince, in October.
In December, Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries (CAM), which employs the missionaries, launched three days of prayer and fasting after a Haitian Christian contacted them to say: ‘God has laid on my heart to propose three days of constant prayer and fasting by all the Haitian churches and schools that are supported by CAM in Haiti. And it should not only be in Haiti, but also that the churches in the US gather Christians together to fast and cry out to the Father’.
