Southern Baptist Pastors Plan To Open Migrant Center In Mexico

In the works are a humanitarian welcome center in Tapachula — a gateway at the Guatemalan border — for migrants of all nationalities, and Haitian-language church plants in Tapachula and Monterrey near the southern U.S. border.

Haiti On The Brink: Did Evangelicals Break The Caribbean Nation?

(ANALYSIS) The news coming from Haiti is not good. It’s not been good for years, for decades, but today it’s even worse. Gangs now control much of the country. It is essentially a failed state, with the lowest per capita income of any country in the Western Hemisphere and among the lowest on the planet. These are hard realities, but evangelicals need to face a hard reality of our own when it comes to Haiti.

Agape Flights Plane Serving Missionaries Attacked And Burned In Haiti

Missionaries throughout Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas look forward to the weekly arrivals of planes flown by Agape Flights, a Florida ministry that shuttles mail, medicines, cargo, relief supplies and other resources. But one of its planes was burned in Haiti by demonstrators protesting the country’s increasing violence and kidnappings.

News, North AmericaSteve RabeyApril 21, 2022Steve Rabey, Ministry Watch, Agape Flights, Haiti, Mission work, Secondary FeatureComment

Ransom demands and prayers: The kidnapping of a mission group in Haiti

This week’s Weekend Plug-in covers the gang kidnapping of 17 American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

Missions Groups Wary As Haiti Kidnappings Increase With Recent Abduction Of 17 People

Kidnappings in Haiti have surged by 300% this year, largely due to the 400 Mawozo gang that recently kidnapped 17 American and Canadian missionaries. Some news reports indicate gangs control up to half of Port-au-Prince and are kidnapping police officers, business people and ministers, even interrupting a sermon to kidnap a pastor.

Fact check: Who is the pastor accused in Haiti’s presidential assassination?

This week’s Weekend Plug-in features a fact check on an important religion angle related to Haiti’s presidential assassination. Plus, catch up on all the week’s best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

Haiti's presidential assassination shut down airports but not churches, mission teams

A hit squad of gunmen killed Haiti’s president this week, pitching the small Caribbean nation into a state of lawlessness and emergency. Outside the capital, a U.S. Christian mission team of teens and adults is going ahead with their plans, helping local churches host Vacation Bible School activities for kids in the community.

Missionaries Around The World Are Responding To COVID-19

With the swelling challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic further depriving the impoverished, Danielle Schneider, Brad Brunsch and Rachel Simmons face a year of ministry like no other.

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