So, just yesterday, I was contacted by the house director who had directed my being-kicked-out-of-the-mission a couple of years ago, back when we were both in Honduras at a certain mission which will remain nameless. More recently, this mission group decided to extend itself further by beginning a school in Liberia, to which they sent several Honduran and American volunteers.

It seems that my old house director, a full-time American volunteer for many years, and his Honduran wife have been kicked out of the mission now, themselves. Why? One of the Honduran men – a guy to whom I gave English lessons not too long ago – was recently arrested and incarcerated for threatening and raping (repetitively over a period of several months) a 13-year-old Nigerian girl in the mission. He later procured abortifacients for her (as well as prostitutes for himself). So… one would think that the organizers of the mission would want to do something to eradicate this behaviour and protect their children, right?

Not yet. They have yet to be convinced that anything at all is wrong with the mission as it stands. It would be much more convenient if the girl would only lie about her age, and admit that she had seduced the man. Because she won’t, and because my house director and his wife stood up for her and let the rapist be arrested, they are now expelled.

Anyway, pray for missions around the world that call themselves Catholic.