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Two years after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people in Haiti, Christianity is fast replacing Voodoo in the lives and practices of the people, a missionary has revealed.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, there is a fusion of beliefs in Haiti - 80 percent of people profess to be Catholic, and another 16 percent are Protestant yet roughly half of the population still practices Voodoo.

On Jan. 12, for the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake, thousands of people flocked to the Shalom Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The "church" is just a plywood stage under a patchwork of tattered tarps.

The American missionaries arrived in a beige bus in the days after the earthquake, promising a better life for the children of this village in the mountains above Haiti's capital.

Haitian President Michel Martelly has offered his deepest thanks to Canada for its efforts in helping his struggling nation get back on its feet.

Sean Penn has accepted the job of "ambassador at large" for the Caribbean nation of Haiti.

Days after the earthquake killed his little girl and destroyed much of his house, Meristin Florival moved his family into a makeshift tent on a hill in the Haitian capital and called it home. Two years later they're still there, living without drains, running water or electricity.

On the 208th anniversary of Haitian independence, January 1, 2012, was held a traditional ceremony in the city of Gonaives, taking part the President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Garry Conille.

Three hours before Britney Gengel died in the massive earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti two years ago, she sent her family a text message expressing pure affection for the children she had met that morning while doing humanitarian work.

Paulette Bekolo remembers the first time she saw her native Haiti through the lens of the developed world. She was in college in Paris and caught a glimpse of a poverty-stricken Haitian ghetto on a TV news report.

The French government announced a resumption of adoptions from Haiti on Friday after a 6-month abeyance initiated by Haitian President Michel Martelly.

For months after the earthquake that struck the capital, Manel Laurore pulled shattered bodies from his neighbors' homes, hunkered in fetid refugee camps and scrounged for food and water.

Think you had a tough time wrapping gifts this year?

You've got nothing on Delourdes Bien-Aime and Eustache Placide.

Berto took part in rescue efforts after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated the country he considers home, leaving behind a world of devastation that the boxer will never forget.

Just two years after the disaster, there are signs that things still aren't improving much in Haiti, as many Haitians continue to struggle with issues such as homelessness, lack of employment, extreme poverty and a cholera outbreak.