Pope Francis on Sunday referred to as for the discharge of hostages, together with six nuns, who have been kidnapped on a bus in Haiti on Friday, and mentioned he was praying for social concord within the nation.
Armed gunmen hijacked a bus in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince with at the least six nuns on board and drove off to an unknown vacation spot taking all passengers hostage, Vatican Information reported on Saturday, citing the Haitian Convention of Spiritual group.
“I’ve realized with sorrow of the kidnapping, in Haiti, of a bunch of individuals, together with six spiritual sisters,” Pope Francis mentioned after his weekly Angelus prayer.
“In my heartfelt plea for his or her launch, I pray for social harmony within the nation, and I invite everybody to deliver an finish to the violence, which is inflicting an excessive amount of struggling to that pricey inhabitants,” he added.
Violence has been escalating for months in Haiti as gangs jockey for energy and search to place stress on interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry, forward of the Feb. 7 expiry of a political accord that consolidated his energy.
The violence comes forward of a court docket resolution anticipated on Jan. 26 on a Kenyan-led multinational pressure to handle gang violence within the nation, one of many poorest within the Western Hemisphere.
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