In Chile, relief assessment underway
SANTIAGO, Chile (BP)--Despite logistical difficulties, Southern Baptist workers are responding to help those suffering from an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked central Chile early Feb. 27.
Haitian intent on continuing God’s work
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)–The Vallee de Bourdon neighborhood in Port-au-Prince was a beautiful place to live — before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Jan. 12. An otherworldly light filled the hillside community when the setting sun angled its rays through the surrounding lush trees. Like stadium seats, houses were stair-stepped up from the riverbed below. Stairways […]
Voodoo priest’s son leads Haitians to Christ
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)–On a hot afternoon in a crowded, makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Jean Junior Cineas sits under a tarp suspended by a broomstick. He shares his faith with five Haitians left homeless after the Jan. 12 earthquake rocked their island nation. Soon, all five pray to receive Christ as their Savior. The irony: Cineas […]
Haitian pastor opens church to victims
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)–He couldn’t find the words to pray. He could only sing. Haitian pastor Ronel Mesidor had left his Port-au-Prince office at Compassion International, a Christian child advocacy ministry, at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 12 to drive to his home in nearby Carrefour. Before he was halfway there, the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck, claiming the lives […]
Haiti earthquake survivors ache for family, friends
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)--In certain places on the northern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, cars are stuck in traffic jams, street vendors are selling vegetables and people are filling restaurants. Despite these pockets of activity on the outskirts, the effects of the earthquake that claimed more than 150,000 Haitian lives two weeks ago continue to echo loudly throughout the city and surrounding areas. 
In hospitals, volunteers offer medical care for broken bones and missionaries deliver supplies to help rebuild broken lives. But the catastrophe also has broken apart countless families.
Enso Jean Louis is alone in L'Hopital de Fermathe. He was brought there nearly two weeks after the quake. But unlike many of his fellow patients, the 22-year-old wasn't accompanied by any family.
With bolts protruding from both sides of his injured right leg, he lies on a bed in a far corner of the ward. The bolts are attached to a brace that holds his bone in place. Filled with the noise of scrubs-clad medics rushing to treat the injured, the room is overflowing with patients and visiting family members. But there is no one at Enso's bedside.
"My parents were taking care of us," he says in Haitian Creole. "I relied on them. I do not know what can be done now."
When the earthquake hit, Enso and his sister were watching television on the second story of his family's house. His parents were downstairs with his other five siblings. Enso was knocked into the yard, where a block of concrete fell on his leg....
