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Visitors are granted entry at Christian Aid Ministries in Berlin, Ohio Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. On Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, workers for the Ohio-based missionary organization have confirmed that an unidentified person paid ransom to free three of their kidnapped colleagues from a Haitian gang under an agreement that was supposed to have freed all 15 of the captive group in early December. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar, File)

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Ransom freed some missionary hostages in Haiti, workers say
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Wed,01/05/22-6:08PM , 239 Reads
An unidentified person paid a ransom that freed three missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti under an agreement that was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 remaining captives early last month, workers for their Ohio-based organization have confirmed.
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Church agency: Captive missionaries made daring escape
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Mon,12/20/21-10:07AM , 207 Reads
Berlin, OH (AP) — Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, according to the agency they work for, officials said Monday.
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Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Wed,12/15/21-9:59AM , 172 Reads
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue.
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Clergy attend the Fall General Assembly meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Baltimore.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Bishops OK Communion document, avoid direct rebuff to Biden
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Wed,11/17/21-12:21PM , 186 Reads
BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved a long-anticipated document on Communion on Wednesday that stops short of calling for withholding the sacrament from politicians such as President Joe Biden who support abortion rights but offers plenty of tacit justification for individual bishops to do so.
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