Sunday, February 12, 2023, three faithful who were preparing to return home after the 6:30 a.m. service, from the First Baptist Church of Port-au-Prince located on Street de la Réunion near the National Palace, have been kidnapped by heavily armed individuals, on the parking lot of the Church under threat who fled after their crime with their 3 hostages... A kidnapping which caused panic among the faithful present on the forecourt of the church, paralyzed by fear and powerless before arms...

Let's recall that in 2021 another tragedy struck this church, Deacon Sylner Lafaille, accompanied by his wife Sister Marie Marthe Laurent Lafaille, as he was preparing to enter the church for the celebration of the first office, individuals heavily armed had kidnapped his wife, trying in vain to oppose the kidnappers, Deacon Sylner Lafaille had been cowardly shot https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34844-haiti-flash-the-first-baptist-church-of-port-au-prince-victim-of-heavily-armed-men.html before the individuals fled with his wife, who was later released agaisnt ransom...

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