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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another example of missionaries preying on vulnerable is facilitating adoptions for Haitian children (and other countries). These children are the most vulnerable. They are powerless and not given a choice to be removed from their home/culture/language and taken to be raised in a whole different country/religion. Sometimes they are even kidnapped by these religious groups - literally a captive audience: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Life_Children%27s_Refuge_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%C3%A9%27s_Ark

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I did volunteer work—not missionary work—in Haiti. I actually worked with a group that helped feed Haitian orphans. I speak some Haitian Creole.

You have no clue. There are tons of orphans in Haiti, especially after the earthquakes. The word “orphan” in creole often extends to kids with a single parent who have been displaced by natural disasters. These kids are either on their own, or they’re with relatives who told us they can’t support them, so we fed the kids and they wandered the streets during the day instead of going to school.

Have you ever seen the effect of starvation? It looks like reddish hair and an extended belly. We had those kids show up.

One Haitian actually offered me a kid to take back to the US. I declined. I’ve always wondered if I did the right thing. Did I?

Church groups are a godsend down there. Hundreds or thousands of religious people are working with Haitians to feed kids, run schools, and rebuild. I can’t condone kidnapping, but from your link it looks like the charge was reduced to illegally transporting kids to an orphanage in the DR. Put that way, it’s hard to know what happened.

You also need to know that a U.S. education is highly coveted in Haiti. I know a couple where the husband is in Haiti while the wife cleans houses (illegally) in Boston so their kid can go to US public schools.

But sure, wave that glass of Chardonnay around from the comfort of your sofa and tell these desperate or ambitious Haitians they’re wrong and you’re cutting it all off. [/quote]

I should have mentioned, secular groups, although many are great, are not up to the task on their own. An aid worker wrote a book about how badly the UN performed in Port au Prince after the earthquake. In the remote town where I worked, and where a lot of refugees from Port au Prince streamed, the UN had some trailer where they did “reconciliation” work. The people who were rolling up their sleeves and actually doing something were us, the missionaries, and the religiously-affiliated volunteers. [/quote]

Why can't they help people without proselytizing? 
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Probably for the same reason(s) you come here to proselytize your views, albeit without helping anybody. [/quote]

They are calling out unethical behavior?

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