American Missionary Kidnapped In Haiti

Guman Seize U.S. Citizen As He Left Church

(AP)  Gunman seized an American missionary as he left a church near Haiti's capital and have demanded a ransom for his release, U.N. police said Monday.

Nathan Jean-Bieubonne, a U.S. citizen of Haitian descent, was abducted Sunday afternoon as he and three others drove home from church in Croix-de-Bouquets, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, U.N. police spokesman Fred Blaise said.

The kidnappers surrounded the 58-year-old pastor's all-terrain vehicle and forced him out at gunpoint, Blaise said. The other three passengers were left unharmed.

"The men who kidnapped him are in touch with the family to demand the ransom," Blaise said, declining to discuss the amount.

Blaise said a U.N. anti-kidnapping task force was working with Haitian police to recover Jean-Bieubonne, whose hometown in the United States and church denomination were not immediately available.

Kidnappings for ransom surged in the impoverished Caribbean nation last year but have fallen in recent weeks as a 9,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force and Haitian police step up patrols around the capital.

Foreign missionaries, who usually travel with less security than diplomats and businesspeople, have increasingly become targets.

Most kidnappings are blamed on armed gangs that flourished in the aftermath of a February 2004 revolt that toppled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected leader. Corrupt police officers have also been implicated.

[yo_marc]

Wow... Hostility and lack of compassion because he's a missionary?

[agnim]

"Agnim, as usual, you know nothing of Haiti, what goes on there, what missionaries do there.

Posted by legendary240 at 10:38 PM : Feb 05, 2007"
You'd be surprised.

Those moronic missionaries are behind the most recent 'regime change' along with the devilish US regime, which has bedeviled the Haitian people for 200 years.
And this most recent 'regime change' is responsible for the present state of chaos in Haiti and misery for the Haitian people.

The Haitians and others do well every time they arrest one of these ignorant, arrogant, and culture-destroying missionary devils.

[foxhaiti]

His name is incorrect.
It's Nathan Jean-Dieudonne.
He is also born and raised in Haiti.

[bildooreilly]

I was down there in the 90's, haiti actually means HELL... I've been to more countries than I can remember and that's the worst place I've ever seen..

[naturalctx]

Thank God... That's all I have to say.

[legendary240]

Agnim, as usual, you know nothing of Haiti, what goes on there, what missionaries do there. You just hate people.

[legendary240]

He's a fellow human. Sorry that he's not your type.

[agnim]

Let's hope that someone thinks this moronic missionary is worth something. LOL

[reel-crazy]

It would seem to me that the kidnappers weren't too intelligent in picking a target to grab in exchange for ransom. I didn't think there was that much money in being a missionary.... however, faith is priceless.

Too many empty voids left undisclosed in this story...