Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A powerful new earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country’s capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake. The magnitude-6.1 temblor was the largest aftershock yet to the Jan. 12 quake. The extent […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince’s destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse. “Why give thanks to God? Because we are here,” said the Rev. Eric Toussaint. […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – With food, water and other aid flowing intoHaiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital. Haiti’s government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies — not counting those recovered by independent […]
Via: NewsOne.com // WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday that “one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history” is moving toward Haiti as he continued to mobilize the U.S. response to the island’s devastating earthquake. Obama said the U.S. government is initially directing $100 million toward the relief effort, a figure he […]
Via: NewsOne.com // The Haitian ambassador appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night and made it a point to address Pat Robertson’s recent comments that Haiti had signed a pact with the devil to defeat the French in 1804, which led to the recent earthquake. He connected the Haitian revolution to the development of […]
Via: TimesDispatch.com Photo courtesy of: JORGE CRUZ/AP A Richmond woman and her daughter on a mission trip to Haiti escaped injury in yesterday’s earthquake, her husband said today, and the group with which they were traveling is also believed to be safe. Corell Halsey Moore and her daughter, Ali Halsey, a University of Virginia student, […]
Photo Via: Fox News The strongest earthquake that Haiti has seen since the 1700’s has rocked the island and may have affected up to 3 million people. The 7.0 magnitude quake destroyed the capital city of Port-au-Prince, leveling most of its buildings leaving turmoil as the sun went down Tuesday. At least 27 aftershocks shook […]
Donate $10 to Red Cross 4 Haiti text Haiti to 90999 or to donate $5 via Wycleff Jean’s charity text Yele to 501501 For more information on the American Red Cross Relief For Haiti visit http://newsroom.redcross.org/ You can also visit the Red Cross Chat Room http://redcrosschat.org/2010/01/12/earthquake-in-haiti/ To find family members in Haiti call 1-888-407-4747 Listen […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. The devastation […]
