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The Associated Press Eight American missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti were back in the U.S. Thursday, even as two others remained in a Haitian jail in an ordeal sparked by the group's attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country.

The Associated Press A Haitian judge said some of the 10 U.S. missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping would be released Wednesday, nearly a month after they were caught trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country.

The Associated Press A Haitian judge said some of the 10 U.S. missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping would be released Wednesday, nearly a month after they were caught trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country.

Ten Americans are charged in Haiti with kidnapping children and trying to take them out of the country.

Ten U.S. Baptists detained trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti without government permission say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.

By CARY McMULLEN LEDGER RELIGION EDITOR Bishop David Roller stood in front of the pile of rubble that was the Friends of Haiti guest house in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, four days after the killer quake that struck the city.

MANATEE — Agape Flights, a local Christian organization that flies supplies nearly every day to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas in support of 330 missionaries, joined Haiti’s recent fight against cholera when it filled an urgent request from a medical team Thursday.

HAINES CITY | Missionaries Hil and Leslie Del Rosario were hoping to be back in Mexico to continue their work by the end of February, but may have to wait a bit longer."We're still raising support," Hil Del Rosario said as he and his wife prepared to speak Jan. 11 to the congregation at Calvary First Assembly of God Church.

Rick Hursh was videotaping other missionaries playing and talking with children at the H.O.P.E Orphanage when the earthquake struck.