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The leader of an American group detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the January earthquake defended her actions upon her release, saying she was "wrongly accused and held without just cause."

Laura Silsby was freed in May after being convicted of arranging illegal travel and sentenced to time served. But another set of legal woes awaited her at home in Idaho. As she had been sitting in a Haitian jail, her ex-husband sought sole custody of their 5-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.

The first predominantly African-American congregation from Florida to minister in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake returned to Tampa consumed by a kinship of hearts and spirit.

A coalition of four Black Baptist groups have come together to form a volunteer association whose primary goal is to raise $50 million for Haitian relief.

Pilgrims, partiers and profit-seekers flocked to a sacred Haitian waterfall Friday where Voodoo and Christian faithful prayed for a better life after six grueling months of post-earthquake trouble.

An open door to Port-au-Prince's deaf community has given Florida Baptist relief workers a vision to seek out clusters of forgotten people left stranded by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Members of Haiti's deaf community in Port-au-Prince wait to receive food and medical treatment at the Florida Baptist Mission House.

A Baptist church in northern Haiti has made an unprecedented gift of 20,000 gourdes ($506) to aid in the recovery from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The gift, though small by some standards, is the equivalent of about two years' wages in the Haitian economy.

It has been five months since the earthquake struck the island nation and some Haitians have been growing impatient with the lack of progress.

It has been more than two months since a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti, but a local pastor recently returned from a medical mission to the country.

After the devastating earthquake in Haiti in mid-January, hundreds of disaster relief teams, aid agencies, NGO's and governments rushed into Port-au-Prince to provide vital food, water and medical supplies.