Port-au-Prince,Haiti — Three of the seven Catholic clergies who were kidnapped in Haiti more than a week ago have been released, a Church spokesman told AFP on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with a rise in violence and ongoing political crisis.
A total of 10 people were abducted in Croix-des-Bouquets, a town northeast of the capital Port-au-Prince, on April 11, including the seven clergies — five of them Haitian and two of them French.
Father Loudger Mazile, spokesman for the Bishop’s Conference for the island nation, said “the French were not released. There were no laypeople among those released.”
“Three of the seven clergies kidnapped on April 11 were released,” h…
Keep on reading: Three of seven Catholic clergy kidnapped in Haiti are released