Haiti
Advocating for Haitians, faith groups pressure Biden to end Trump-era measure
By Jack Jenkins — September 28, 2021
(RNS) — The faith leaders are targeting a Trump-era measure known as Title 42 that has allowed for mass deportation.
Pope, from hospital, sends condolences to Haiti after attack
By Associated Press — July 8, 2021
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis sent his condolences to Haiti after what he said was the ‘heinous assassination’ of President Jovenal Moïse.
Insta-Famous: Nadirah Pierre’s satire draws on the Black Muslim experience
By Joseph Hammond — March 16, 2021
(RNS) — Relationships, marriage, body positivism, hijab — they're all fair game for the Haitian American's outspoken style and bold videos.
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
By Thomas Craemer — February 26, 2021
(The Conversation) — This time the benefits would go to the Black descendants of the enslaved, not to enslavers and their offspring.
Dodging dangers, mission groups weigh risks and rewards
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — August 15, 2018
(RNS) — This year's many pitfalls, from fuel price riots in Haiti to violent unrest in Nicaragua, have forced a fresh reckoning with thorny questions: How much risk is too much?
Haiti unrest strands a number of US church groups
By Yonat Shimron — July 9, 2018
(AP) — Church groups from South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Alabama are among those that haven't been able to leave, according to newspaper and television reports.
New head of Catholic Relief Services wants to be a beacon of light in dark places
By Yonat Shimron — January 6, 2017
(RNS) 'One of the things that we do is bring that message from overseas, that they’re not alone, that there are people that care about them,' said Sean Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services.
Distributing aid in Haiti is a dangerous proposition
By Kit Doyle — October 26, 2016
JEREMIE, Haiti (RNS) Religion reporting doesn't usually put a journalist in harm's way. But that wasn't the case when an RNS photojournalist accompanied a relief convoy distributing aid in Haiti to victims of Hurricane Matthew.
Haiti’s supreme leader of voodoo, Max Beauvoir, has died
By Reuters — September 14, 2015
Voodoo, often misrepresented as a black magic cult, "heals the mind, soul and body," the Port-a-Prince priest once said.
Mission trips aren’t just for Christians anymore as Jews aim to ‘heal the world’
By Lauren Markoe — January 15, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Proselytizing isn't part of Jewish DNA. But alumni say that synagogue-sponsored mission trips provide a hands-on way for Jews to fulfill the obligation of "tikkun olam," Hebrew for "heal the world."
Zombies 101? Monmouth University joins colleges offering courses on the undead
By Kelly Heyboer — November 18, 2013
(RNS) Monmouth University is among several colleges jumping on the zombie scholarship bandwagon. The University of Baltimore and Columbia College in Chicago both offer zombie studies classes. Michigan State University offered a two-credit course last summer on surviving the zombie apocalypse in which students were placed in survivor groups in a simulated zombie attack.
Destroyed Episcopal cathedral to be rebuilt in Haiti
By Katherine Burgess — October 16, 2013
Designs to rebuild the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, were unveiled to the Episcopal Church Executive Council during its Chicago meeting.
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