If these weren't people labeled "Christian," would the US government have dealt with this issue, and freed these innocent people who, perhaps awkwardly, naively or poorly, tried to help the poor children of Haiti, differently? Meanwhile, the money keeps flowing to an inept (generous) regime, dependent upon the "West" for its basic needs. This is not justice for a US citizen!

Why does the secular and Christian insist on calling those people "missionaries". They were simply church members who may have had good intentions. But to buy a plane ticket, show up with out an in country ministry to associate with and proceed to give the centuries of real missions effort is a slap in the face of real missions.
Please stop using the term to describe these kinds of travelers as missionaries. The continued use of the term greatly harms the true missions effort of real and reliable organizatons.

What do you mean "this is not justice for a US citizan". Are US citizans exempt from following the laws of other countries when they are in those countries? Child kidnapping and trafficking is a serious crime. I suspect most of the so-called "missionaries" were rather gullible and perhaps not very well informed or not very bright. However, the leader Laura Silsby seems to have known what she was doing only too well. It looks very much as it was a business opportunity for her to make some money on these proposed adoptions.

If Ms. Silsby is a missionary then I am the reincarnation of Reinhold Niebhur or Paul Tillich!

Are organized religious interests so naive as to think the public will endorse opportunists without creditable training who purchase a plane ticket as "missionaries" and then believe potential future claims asserting persecution?

What poppycock!