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The leader of a Haitian street gang, which has kidnapped seventeen missionaries and family members, is threatening to murder them unless their $17 million ransom demand is paid in full.

A group of women looking for sons and daughters who were never heard from again after migrating to the U.S. traveled in mid- to late October throughout the country to plead for better immigration laws.

As Haitians seek to rebuild their country, "it is imperative that the international community take a shared and concrete interest in their plight," the Vatican's U.N. nuncio said during an informal meeting of the Security Council on Haiti's dire situation.

As Christian missionaries and family members, some as young as 8 months old, were still being held for ransom in Haiti by a gang notorious for group kidnappings, other charities and religious groups examined how they can remain safe while delivering humanitarian aid.

Latin America's Indigenous people will play a central role at a regional assembly the Catholic Church will hold at the end of November in Mexico.