The Haitian Gov. Arrests and Questions 10 U.S. Missionaries
Missionaries operate freely in Haiti without government oversight. Having greater access to resources, they are often arrogant, believing that they have a monopoly on faith.Many missionary groups bring quite a lot of aid to Haiti. They offer poor people food, water, education/indoctrination, and medical care - all seemingly free but at a great cost. One price for religion cloaked in humanitarian assistance is the erosion of personal dignity. Poor people in Haiti have had to give up their past and walk away from the memory of their forefathers.In many places in Haiti, service for African Ancestors is no longer held because ignorant missionaries who know nothing of African history desecrate the memory of African forebears. Not surprisingly, the missionaries are often unrelated to Haitian Ancestors whom they vilify as demons.In exchange for missionary goods, poor people not only pay the price of forgetting their past, but they must often also mortgage their future. Too often they choose to abandon their children, their future, to missionaries, who forever separate children from parents.To prevent such horrors, restrictions must be placed on missionary activities.
Recently, 33 Haitian children, many with living parents, ended up in the hands of 10 missionaries who exploited the overwhelming poverty of Haiti to transport the children to the Dominican Republic without documentation. For now, the Haitian government has put a stop to it. Let's hope the government will remain vigilant. People with and without religious faith are capable of horrendous actions. Missionaries and non-missionaries alike need to be restricted by the law and be subject to government oversight.