ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 12, 2025 / 06:00 am

The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince denounced the “collapse of humanity” in Haitian society, “where the unthinkable has become commonplace,” in response to the kidnapping of nine people from an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on Aug. 3.

In a statement , the archdiocese said it received the news of the kidnappings, which included an Irish lay missionary and a disabled 3-year-old boy, with “deep sadness and profound indignation” and expressed “its fraternal solidarity and spiritual closeness” with the orphanage, a “tireless sower of hope for the most vulnerable.”

The archdiocese also expressed its solidarity with the residents of Kenscoff, who have been affected “by the brutal violence that has taken hold in this town over the past few

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