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Wrap-up of news stories taken from the day's local headlines.

Efforts drag on to free 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

 Allen Speer, CEO of AGAPE Flights joins Two Way Talk to discuss the kidnappings in Haiti and the vexatious challenges missionaries face when helping Third-World countries. 

 

  

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Efforts to win the return of 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group and a local driver have stretched into a fourth day, with a violent gang demanding $1 million ransom per person.

The group seized includes five children aged from 8 months to 15 years, although authorities are not clear whether the ransom demand included them. Sixteen of the abductees are Americans and one Canadian.

The Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries says it will hold a day of fasting and prayer for its missionaries Thursday.

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A watchdog group says at least 119 kidnappings were recorded in Haiti for the first half of October.

It says a Haitian driver was abducted along with the missionaries.