kidnapping

Kidnappers have issued a $1 million ransom demand for an American nurse and her daughter, who were recently taken by gunmen in Haiti.

U.S. officials have not released details about what may have happened to an American nurse and her daughter who were kidnapped in Haiti last week.

Police in Uganda have arrested two people in connection with the kidnapping of 40 Christian children lured by a Muslim posing as the leader of a Christian charity offering free education, sources said.

Last week, a judge in Pakistan denied a Christian couple custody of their 12-year-old daughter, who was kidnapped and forced to convert and marry.

On Monday night, suspected Islamic extremists kidnapped 36 people from a predominantly Christian village outside the city of Kaduna, in northern Nigeria.

Nigerian police rescued at least 77 people, including 23 children, from a church basement, where pastors told them to stay and to wait for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

A family member of several of the formerly kidnapped Christian Aid Ministries missionaries in Haiti said a ransom had been paid, but their kidnappers still refused to free the missionaries before they managed to escape.

A gang in Haiti is demanding $17 million for the release of the 17 American and Canadian Christian missionaries its members kidnapped.

Thirteen schools, most of them Christian, in Nigerian have close amid violent attacks and mass kidnappings.

Fulani herdsmen are believed to have kidnapped nearly 180 students at a Christian high school in Kaduna state, Nigeria on Monday.