Charisa Coulter was taken from her jail cell to the airport by U.S. Embassy staff on Monday — more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the earthquake.

A defense lawyer said she was released because there was no evidence to support the charges. He predicted that Laura Silsby, the leader of the group, will also soon be released.

The judge released the other eight Americans last month after concluding that parents voluntarily gave up their children in the belief that the missionaries would give them a better life.

Critics have urged the office — a holdover from the previous administration — to withhold funding from religious charities that hire only fellow believers, but it’s unclear if that will be discussed.

Under President Obama, the faith-based office’s policy goals include “reducing the need for abortion” — an issue that is not on today’s agenda.

But the advisory council is scheduled to discuss interfaith cooperation, which will be needed since its 25 appointees range from Catholic, evangelical and liberal Christians to Jews, Muslims and the religious director of a gay rights group.

Hundreds of people have fled their homes, fearing reprisal attacks.

Local journalists and a civil rights group say the bodies of the dead lined the streets of three mostly Christian villages south of the regional capital of Jos.

The city lies in a region separating Nigeria’s Muslim north from the predominantly Christian south.

Witnesses who escaped the massacre said they believed the attackers were Muslims.

The Red Cross says Nigerian military units are surrounding the three affected villages.

The church is inviting the public to its services this Sunday to recognize the life of the Rev. Fred Winters. Winters’ widow, Cindy Winters, will be one of the speakers.

Winters was shot to death on March 8, 2009. Terry Sedlacek was charged with first-degree murder but has been declared mentally unfit to stand trial.

Sedlacek is in the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services for treatment.

Cindy Williams says the anniversary services are part of the church’s healing.

But the author of the memoir “Son of Hamas” says he now worships a God who will never disown him.

Since leaving Islam, Yousef has come to believe that the more closely Muslims follow Allah and Muhammad, the more they become inhuman terrorists. In an Associated Press interview, Yousef said, “The biggest terrorist is Allah of the Quran, the god of the Quran, the god of Islam.”

But Yousef doesn’t view himself as having changed religions. He says, “I am not a religious person today. I am a Jesus Christ follower. It’s a matter of a relationship.”

Wildmon says his resignation follows months of health problems, including hospitalizations for treatment of encephalitis, which he got from a mosquito bite, and cancer on his left eye.

The 72-year-old Wildmon says he’ll continue to work at AFA, while his son Tim leads the ministry.

Don Wildmon, a retired Methodist minister, founded the group in

1977 as the National Federation for Decency, promoting family values and waging boycotts to combat pornography and violence in media.

The group changed its name in 1988 to the American Family Association, which now has a $20 million budget, 180 radio stations, a monthly magazine and an Internet presence.

A Haitian judge says he’s not ready to release his decision after holding a final hearing.

Judge Bernard Saint-Vil says he’s consulting with prosecutors on the charges against Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter. Saint-Vil had said earlier he would probably order their release after Tuesday’s hearing. He declined to explain the delay.

The two missionaries seemed in good spirits before they were taken back to jail. They were visited by U.S. Embassy personnel.

Saint-Vil previously freed eight other Americans detained with the pair for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without proper papers.

International Christian Concern reports that hundreds of Iraqi Christian families have fled Mosul in recent weeks to escape “targeted killings” there.

Insurgents have often targeted Iraqi Christians. Last week, Iraq’s government promised to provide extra security to Christians in Mosul.

On Monday, the United Nations Special Representative in Iraq expressed concern about attacks on Christian and minority candidates in the run-up to Sunday’s election in Iraq.

The U.S. hopes the election will produce a stable government that could ease withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by the end of next year.

Judge Bernard Saint-Vil tells The Associated Press he expects to resolve the case after a hearing Tuesday. Saint-Vil said Monday he plans to have missionaries Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter in court for the closed hearing. He will also take testimony from people who were helping them set up an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

The judge says he’s close to being able to resolve the case and will probably order the release of Silsby and Coulter.

Eight other Americans detained with them have already been released.

The Reverend Franklin Graham says his father has spoken on the phone in recent months with President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, and was visited by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The younger Graham says his father recently finished updating his 1992 book “Storm Warning,” and is currently working on another book, but slowly — typically an hour of work followed by a nap.

Billy Graham’s glib father-son advice, according to Franklin, was: “Don’t get old.”