FoxNews.com - Florida Missionary Released From Haitian Jail

By Diane Macedo, FoxNews.com

An American missionary has been released from a jail in Haiti after being held five months without charges.

Daniel Pye, 29, a Christian pastor who runs an orphanage with his wife in the southern city of Jacmel, says the judge who jailed him in October signed his release order. Now free from a cell he shared with 28 other men, he is spending a couple of days with the orphans at his mission in southern Haiti before returning to Bradenton, Fla., where his wife, Leann, is about to give birth.

"Our prayers, tears, and words have been heard and responded with a YES!!," Leann, 27, said on the couple's blog Wednesday.

Daniel said on Wednesday that his sudden freedom seems surreal.

"It's been an experience I'll never forget," he told The Associated Press.

The release comes exactly a week after FoxNews.com published a story on Daniel's imprisonment.

The American Center for Law and Justice, which helped secure Daniel's release after signing on to the case Friday, said fear of additional media exposure was key to getting him out.

"We made it very clear that if this was not handled quickly we would go very aggressively to the press about what was happening here and who was not helping," Jordan Sekulow, the director of international operations for the center, told FoxNews.com. "...Instead the Haitian officials that we met with here in D.C. and those on the ground in Haiti got this handled in less than a week.". . . .

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