Armed men kidnap six nuns in Haiti
People take a wounded man to a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in late 2023, after gangs took over their neighbourhood Carrefour-Feuilles. Vatican News reported January 19 that armed men in Port-au-Prince took over a bus and kidnapped at least six nuns and others who were on the bus. Photo: OSV News/Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters
Six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of St Anne were kidnapped January 19 while traveling on a bus in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious. Other passengers on the bus also were taken in the abduction, the conference said in a statement. “These many kidnappings fill the consecrated…