March 8, 2024 / 05:18 PM
On March 6, three nuns who had been kidnapped in Haiti were released after 24 hours of confinement. according to local media. The nuns work in an orphanage that belongs to the Congregation of Saint Joseph of Cluny, located in the community of Madeline.
This area of Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital, is controlled by the 400 Mawozo gang. The situation of violence reached an extreme point this week, after criminal groups, which control 80% of the capital’s territory, released more than 5,000 inmates from the two largest prisons in the country.
According Vatican Newsthe news of the abduction was spread on Tuesday by Father Gilbert Peltrop, former parish priest of the Saint-Gérard parish of Carrefour-Feuilles.