Lay Missionary and 3-Year-Old Boy Kidnapped From Orphanage in Haiti

Lay missionary and 3-year-old boy kidnapped from orphanage in Haiti

An aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / Credit: arindambanerjee/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 3, nine people working at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, were ... [...]

'Free Gena,' plead colleagues of kidnapped Irish missionary in Haiti

Gena Heraty, a longtime Irish missionary in Haiti, is pictured with children in a 2014 photo. Heraty was among several people — including a three-year-old child — taken in the early hours of Aug. 3, 2025, after gunmen breached the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. OSV News photo/courtesy NPH International Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and…

Gang's 'ransom demand' for return of Mayo aid worker Gena Heraty

The Haitian paramilitary group that kidnapped Mayo woman Gena Heraty has made a ransom demand, a local NGO source has said. Discussions have taken place between Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs (NPFS, Our Little Brothers and Sisters), the organisation for which Ms Heraty works, and the paramilitary group ‘Live Together’, which is based in Delmas, in the western suburbs of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. However, a well-placed Haitian NGO source, who …

“Free Gena,” plead colleagues of kidnapped Irish missionary in Haiti

Gena Heraty, a longtime Irish missionary in Haiti, is pictured with a child in a 2012 photo. Heraty was among several people — including a three-year-old child — taken in the early hours of Aug. 3, 2025, after gunmen breached the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. (OSV News photo/courtesy NPH International) Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary an…