CHICAGO (ELCA) -- A group from Abiding Hope Lutheran Church, Littleton, Colo., is reported to have left Haiti today by boat headed for the Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, a pastor with a Pennsylvania group in Haiti, reports the group hopes to leave the country by plane by Monday, and two Wartburg Seminary students have returned to the United States.
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