Former Baptist pastor charged in assassination of Haitian president goes on trial

Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 67-year-old Haitian American pastor and medical doctor who formerly served as director of the Haitian Church Planting Department for the Florida Baptist Convention, has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to assassinate late Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”