PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The U.S. Embassy says a kidnapped person was among four U.S. citizens killed in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake. The U.S. State Department expanded its travel warning for Haiti on Monday to say that dangers of killings and kidnappings persist, and “some kidnap victims have been killed, shot, sexually assaulted...
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When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in January, IDT (IDTC), the New Jersey-based global phone company, moved fast to help. It announced it was setting up calling stations at hotels and other sites so Haitians could use its Internet calling-service to reach family and friends around the world. It cut rates on its U.S....
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By Jennifer Rizzo, CNN Miami, Florida (CNN) — Romel Joseph calls it his second life. “When I came here, I said I was 99.9 percent dead, and I am leaving here 85 percent alive,” he said. The blind violinist who was trapped for 18 hours after Haiti’s earthquake in January was released from a...
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Growth of evangelicals, Protestants could have deep political influence on a rebuilding nation. By Kenneth Kidd PETIONVILLE, HAITI–The iron gates that lead from the small chapel to the main church have been chained shut. Paper signs in Creole and French plead for help with rebuilding. The main part of St. Pierre Catholic Church is...
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