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By Emily Troutman - AOL News
Emily Troutman has been reporting on Haiti for AOL News since January. You can follow her updates on Twitter. CABARET, Haiti (Dec. 12) -- Sarah Palin, the erstwhile politician and potential candidate for U.S. president, was off limits to the media, except Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, for most of her visit to Haiti this weekend. But Palin finally spoke briefly at a news conference today. "Haiti has been a country that has suffered in the past and is going to continue to suffer until some fundamental changes are being made here," said Palin, who was accompanying the Rev. Franklin Graham, ...
Sarah Palin to Visit Haiti With Franklin Graham -- Boosting Her Standing With Evangelicals?
By David Gibson - Politics DailySarah Palin will travel to strife-torn Haiti this weekend with Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, on a mission that could burnish her standing on foreign policy and with evangelicals if she pursues a 2012 presidential run. The trip to the island nation, still ravaged by the effects of last January's earthquake and facing rising civil violence, will be part of a mission by Samaritan's Purse, the Christian relief operation that the younger Graham heads. The Associated Press reported that the duo will be visiting a cholera clinic, among other stops. Palin staffer Rebecca ...
US Aid Worker Released After 105 Days in Darfur
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- An evangelical Christian relief organization says its aid worker kidnapped in May in Sudan's Darfur region was freed today. Flavia Wagner, 35, was released by kidnappers after 105 days in captivity, according to North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse. Wagner was working as the group's education program manager in Darfur. "She said she is looking forward to being reunited with her family in the United States," according to a statement on the group's website, which also said its staff has seen Wagner. Ashraf Shazly, AFP / Getty Images American aid worker Flavia Wagner, center, ...
Sarah Palin's Early Christmas Gift: A Free Ride on Franklin Graham's Charity Jet
By David Gibson - Politics DailyNo one would mistake Sarah Palin for a charity case, given the multimillion-dollar advance she received for "Going Rogue" and the dollars she can command as perhaps the most sought-after Republican speaker on the circuit. But Franklin Graham, son of the legendary evangelist Billy Graham and founder of the international Christian relief group Samaritan's Purse, apparently thought she could use a helping hand. So when Palin said she wanted to meet the elder Graham for some face time and a politically potent photo-op at Billy Graham's mountaintop home in North Carolina last month, Franklin ...
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