Tension among Haiti’s religions grows after quake

The catastrophe has driven a wedge between Haiti’s religions as Christian groups make inroads among shaken Voodoo followers — some drawn by the steady flow of aid through evangelical missions and others frightened by a disaster they saw as a warning from God. Read more »

U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Some Americans are connected with Baptist Church, Idaho. Read more »

Hindu Bhutanese Refugees Are Targets for Conversion

After a long series of tribulations, including expulsion from their home country and long nineteen years in provisory refugee camps as citizens of nowhere, Hindus originally from Bhutan are coming to America . But, unfamiliar with the new country and western ways, insecure in their new life and throughly vulnerable to being influenced, they make for easy targets for conversion to proselytizing faiths. while Hinduism Today does not take an editorial stand against conversions, they must follow ethical standards, something too seldom ignored. The article below is reprinted from the Baptist Standard Newsjournal. Read more »

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