District of Columbia, Illinois, International | October 18, 2021
US Should Secure Freedom of Missionaries in Haiti Without Ransom: Rep. Kinzinger
District of Columbia, Illinois, International | October 18, 2021
The United States should free missionaries in Haiti without ransom, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on Sunday, shortly after a U.S. Christian aid organization said a group of its missionaries had been kidnapped in the Caribbean nation.
The Illinois Republican told CNN that the United States must find the group and see if it can negotiate their release without paying a ransom or should use the military or police to secure their freedom.
“We need to track down where they are and see if negotiations—without paying ransom—are possible. Or do whatever we need to do, on a military front or a police front,” Kinzinger, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said… (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
International | October 18, 2021
Group of 16 Americans and a Canadian, Including Five Children, Kidnapped in Haiti
International | October 18, 2021
A group of American missionaries working in Haiti was kidnapped by a notorious gang amid a sharp rise in abductions and political turmoil in the Caribbean nation, a spokesman for the Haitian Justice Ministry said.
Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement Sunday that a group that included 16 Americans and one Canadian was kidnapped Saturday morning during a trip to an orphanage. The organization said that five of those who were abducted are children. An aide to Prime Minister Ariel Henry said the missionaries were taken hostage after being ambushed by heavily armed men on a road outside the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
“Join us in praying for those who are being held hostage, the kidnappers, and the families, friends, and churches of those affected,” Christian Aid Ministries said…. (Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal)
International | October 17, 2021
American Christian Missionaries, Including Children, Kidnapped in Haiti: Officials
International | October 17, 2021
As many as 17 American missionaries, including women and children, were reportedly kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend, according to a message sent to several religious missions.
The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage when the incident occurred, the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a message.
“This is a special prayer alert,” said a message on WhatsApp, a screenshot of which was seen by The Epoch Times. “Pray that the gang members would come to repentance.” The message also said that women and children were among those kidnapped.
The 400 Mawozo gang kidnapped the group—which also included some elderly people—in Ganthier, a commune that lies east of the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian police inspector Frantz Champagne told The Associated Press. The gang, whose name roughly translates to 400 “inexperienced men,” controls the Croix-des-Bouquets area that includes Ganthier, where they carry out kidnappings and carjackings and extort business owners, according to authorities… (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
International | October 5, 2021
China sharply escalates warplane provocations near Taiwan
International | October 5, 2021
China’s military stepped up provocative aerial incursions near Taiwan on Monday with its biggest sortie to date, sending 58 warplanes, including 12 nuclear-capable bombers, inside the island’s air defense zone, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said.
Flights on Friday and Saturday traveled into the same southern air defense zone in what Chinese state media called practice for a military assault on Taiwan, an island state 100 miles off the southern Chinese coast. Beijing considers Taiwan to be part of its sovereign territory. The incursions Monday, in two waves, were the largest so far in what appears to be a Beijing-directed campaign of coercion. The flights bring the total aircraft flying into the air defense zone since late last week to 136 and represent a People’s Liberation Army escalation of tension…. (Excerpts from Washington Times)
California | August 26, 2021
California Appropriations Committee Must Reject the Ethnic-Studies Bill
California | August 26, 2021
It Will Encourage Hatred of Jews and Israel, Which Graduating High School Students Might Bring to College Campuses and Beyond
By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President & Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., Director of ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice
(AUGUST 24, 2021 / JNS) California’s Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote this week on AB 101, a bill that would require the state’s students to take a one-semester course in ethnic studies in order to receive their high school diplomas. The bill may sound benign and even beneficial. But in fact, it’s dangerous. If enacted, AB 101 would permit local school districts to use the ethnic studies curriculum of their choosing. The ones developed in California so far have been anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. If any of them are used, high-schoolers will be encouraged to hate Israel and Jews based on lies—something that should be intolerable to us all, including the appropriations committee.
Take the first draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) that was under consideration in California in 2019. Jews were barely acknowledged as an ethnic group. According to the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, which opposed the draft, excluding Jews was purposeful and reflected the prejudice of the drafters… (Excerpts from Zionist Organization of America)
International | June 15, 2021
China tortures Uyghurs in brutal concentration camps to implement ‘One China’ policy, witnesses testify
International | June 15, 2021
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LONDON, England, June 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) —An independent tribunal in London, convened to investigate ‘ongoing atrocities and possible genocide’ in China, is bringing to light horrific stories of torture inflicted on Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.
Tribunal testimonies reveal subhuman conditions, forced abortions, rape, and the systematic, indiscriminate use of torture against ethnic minorities in “re-education” camps in northwest China, leaving inmates traumatized or dead. A former Chinese police officer now exiled in Germany, who participated in the arrest of the minorities, composed mostly of Uyghurs, explained in his statement that they “are tortured to remove all disagreement.” “After the worst treatment, they will completely obey and be in line with the Party. They will have no thoughts of their own left,” explained the whistleblower under the pseudonym Wang Keizhan. He explained how thousands of Chinese police recruits, often with little professional training, are enticed by “very high salaries” to work in Xinjiang, where they are taught to view Uyghurs as enemies of the state. ..
(Excerpts from LIFESITE News)