AMERICA/HAITI – No news of the Clerics of Saint Viator missionary kidnapped while celebrating a funeral

AMERICA/HAITI – No information of the Clerics of Saint Viator missionary kidnapped whereas celebrating a funeral

Thursday, 16 March 2023

Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – “Father Jean-Yves remains to be within the fingers of his kidnappers. They don’t seem to be answering our cellphone calls and the strain is rising”. That is what Father Nestor Fils-Aimé, Provincial Superior of Canada of the Clerics of Saint Viator, studies to Fides in regards to the story of the confrere kidnapped at Croix des Bouquets (see Fides, 14/3/2023).
“I arrived in Haiti on a pastoral go to on Wednesday March 8, 2023, he says, and it was Father Jean-Yves who got here to greet me on the airport, then on Friday the tenth, he was kidnapped by an armed mob whereas celebrating a funeral”.
“Sadly – provides Fr, Nestor – kidnappings by armed gangs are the order of the day right here in Haiti. I’m all the time there to help and accompany my brothers on this very delicate second. All our communities are united in prayer and we provide our Eucharistic celebrations for the liberation of our brother. We proceed to obtain many testimonies of solidarity, each nationally and internationally, and we’re grateful to all for his or her help”.
The Congregation of the Clerics of Saint Viator, CSV, was based in Vourles, close to Lyon (France) by Father Louis Querbes on November 3, 1831. The Clerics are engaged in training at varied ranges and in church ministry, with an emphasis on liturgy and catechesis.
The Congregation at the moment
has slightly below 5 hundred spiritual, unfold throughout 13 nations on 4 continents. Lay folks (women and men) joined the spiritual, sharing the charism of the Congregation. The Viatorian group has about 200 associates.
The CSVs of Canada based the mission in Haiti in 1965. They got here to interchange the Jesuits who ran the Main Seminary of Port-au-Prince and who have been expelled from the nation by the dictator François Duvalier.
As we speak, there are practically forty CSVs in Haiti. They work primarily within the discipline of training by means of eight faculties. In addition they administer two parishes within the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince. Father Jean-Yves Médidor is parish priest of Christ-Roi in Croix-des-Bouquets, stronghold of a legal gang referred to as ‘400 mawozo’. (AP) (Agenzia Fides, 16/3/2023)

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