{"id":102,"date":"2025-04-14T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/trump-admin-secures-release-of-american-missionary-held-in-tunisia-for-13-months-report\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:05:57","slug":"trump-admin-secures-release-of-american-missionary-held-in-tunisia-for-13-months-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/trump-admin-secures-release-of-american-missionary-held-in-tunisia-for-13-months-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin secures release of American missionary held in Tunisia for 13 months: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">An American missionary who was detained in Tunisia for over a year was released on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Officials gained the release of U.S. citizen Robert Vieira on Sunday afternoon, according to a Reuters report citing U.S. special envoy Adam Boehler.<\/p>\n<p>Boehler told the outlet that Vieira was doing missionary work when he was detained by Tunisian authorities 13 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Officials reportedly suspected Vieira of espionage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia, a North African country bordered by Algeria and Libya, was amenable to Vieira&#8217;s release after Boehler worked closely with its foreign minister, Mohamed Ali Nafti.<\/p>\n<p>After being released on Sunday, Vieira flew back home to the U.S. alongside his family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We appreciate the government of Tunisia\u2019s decision to resolve this case and allow Mr. Vieira to reunite with his family after more than 13 months of pre-trial detention,&#8217; Boehler said.<\/p>\n<p>Boehler credited his collaboration with Nafti for securing the detainee&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for additional comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n<p><i>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American missionary who was detained in Tunisia for over a year was released on Sunday. Officials gained the release of U.S. citizen Robert Vieira on Sunday afternoon, according to a Reuters report citing U.S. special envoy Adam Boehler. Boehler told the outlet that Vieira was doing missionary work when he was detained by Tunisian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourprofitbeacon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}