PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS) -- A pregnant Germaine Sylace struggled to get control of the two tarps, a plastic bin of nails and 100 feet of nylon rope. Nothing was going to stop her from making sure her family would be sleeping under something better than a couple of thin bed sheets tied together with string.
Sylace, 44, was trying not to drop the supplies being delivered Feb. 5 and 6 by Catholic Relief Services to thousands of families forced from their homes by January's earthquake. She gained control and made her way down a rocky hillside at the Petionville Club path back to the small spot of land she, her husband and their three children had occupied for more than three weeks. (full story)
Nigerian archbishop says violence more political than religious
Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos said the origin of the current conflicts, like those of 2008, was a struggle for political control of the city between the Hausa people, who are predominantly Muslim, and the indigenous residents, who are mostly Christians.
