Christian Aid Ministries

The U.S. Department of Justice is searching for Jason Gerald Shenk, a former Georgia resident who allegedly took $33 million from two religious charities and individual donors from 2010 to 2019. Shenk told the groups he was donating Bibles to China.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang with conspiracy to commit hostage-taking for his alleged role in the kidnapping of 16 Americans last year.

Workers for an Ohio-based missionary organization say an unidentified person made a ransom payment that freed three of their kidnapped colleagues from a Haitian gang in early December.

Christian Aid Ministries is sharing details on how the 12 remaining missionaries from the Ohio-based organization held hostage in Haiti gained their freedom.

A Haitian police spokesman said that a kidnapping gang has released all remaining hostages from an Ohio-based missionary group.

A Millersburg-based church organization said three additional abducted members of a missionary group have been freed in Haiti. In November, the religious organization announced that the gang had released the first two hostages.

A Millersburg-based church organization says two of 17 abducted members of a missionary group have been freed in Haiti.

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that Haitian police say kidnapped 17 members of a missionary group is seen in a new video saying he will kill them if he doesn’t get what he is demanding.

A gang is demanding millions of dollars in ransom for 17 kidnapped missionaries. Faith-based humanitarian groups say their work demands balancing risk with the need to serve the most vulnerable.

Sixteen members of Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries are U.S. citizens, including 5 children. The 400 Mawazo gang that took the group specializes in mass kidnappings and seeks a $17 million ransom.