{"id":280584,"date":"2010-02-04T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21585"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:51:13","slug":"idaho-baptists-charged-with-kidnapping-33-haitian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280584","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Baptists Charged With Kidnapping 33 Haitian Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, talk about breathtaking arrogance. Evangelicals from Idaho thought it&#8217;d be alright to abduct some Haitian children for Jesus. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/05\/world\/americas\/05orphans.html\">NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE &#8212; Members of a Baptist congregation&#8230;were charged Thursday with abduction and criminal association, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans were arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children to what they had said was an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. A Web site for the orphanage said that children there would stay in a \u201cloving Christian environment\u201d and be eligible for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>But several of the 33 children had at least one living parent, and some of those parents said that the Baptists had promised simply to educate the youngsters in the Dominican Republic and said the children would be able to return to Haiti to visit their families.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/02\/04\/world\/04cnd-orphansspan\/04cnd-orphansspan-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, talk about breathtaking arrogance. Evangelicals from Idaho thought it&#8217;d be alright to abduct some Haitian children for Jesus. From the NY Times: PORT-AU-PRINCE &#8212; Members of a Baptist congregation&#8230;were charged Thursday with abduction and criminal association, according to prosecutors. The Americans were arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children to what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}