It has been confirmed that six religious Sisters were kidnapped by armed assailants in Haiti on 19 January.
The abduction took place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, when six Sisters of Saint Anne – who have not been named – were travelling to a university, the Haitian Conference of Religious has confirmed.
The gunmen stopped the bus and took the driver, the Sisters and a seventh traveller, to an undisclosed location, reports Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
The area where the kidnapping occurred is territory fought over by two rival gangs – the Grande Ravine and Village de Dieu gangs – but so far no one has admitted seizing the Sisters.
