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September 4, 2025

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Doubt Can Benefit Us

September 4, 2025

The word ponder means “to weigh.” Do people need to weigh something about which they are absolutely certain?

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Gena Heraty, a longtime Irish missionary in Haiti pictured with a child in a 2012 photo, has been freed after nearly a month of captivity, the news agency Agenzia Fides confirmed Sept. 1, 2025. Heraty was among several people -- including a 3-year-old child -- taken in the early hours of Aug. 3 after gunmen breached the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. (OSV News photo/courtesy NPH International)

Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti

September 4, 2025
(OSV News) — A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been freed after nearly a month of captivity. Gena Heraty, who has been working in Haiti for 30 years, was freed along with the other hostages captured Aug. 3 after ...
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