Santo Domingo, RD.
Pastor Elie Henry, president of the Inter-American Seventh-day Adventist Church, along with his daughter Irma, were released unharmed this Monday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after disappearing since the night of December 24 while returning from religious activities. .
The information was released by the Seventh-day Adventist Church on the Seventh-day Adventist website.
It is not known whether Pastor Elie Henry and his daughter Irma posted a bond for their release.
“I spoke to Pastor Henry and he told me that he and Irma met his wife, Ketlie, in Port-au-Prince, and they are all fine,” said Pastor Leonard Johnson, executive secretary of the Church in Interamericana.
In a statement, Pastor Johnson thanked God for the deliverance of the members of that Church.
“The leaders and members of our Church in Inter-America and the world prayed for his deliverance, and we are relieved and thankful to God,” he wrote.
On December 2, the United States Embassy reported in a statement that any departure of personnel from the diplomatic legation was restricted until further notice, indicating that 14 kidnappings had been reported in seven days.
There has been an inordinate scale of kidnappings since November last year, spreading fear across the country.
Hundreds of people have rejected the increase in kidnappings and the insecurity that the neighboring country is experiencing.
One of the kidnappings and subsequent murders that shocked the entire international community and prompted Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise to show solidarity with the family of 21-year-old college student Evelyne Sincère on Oct. 29.
According to that country, kidnappers are demanding up to $ 100,000 to free a person.