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Men who lost relatives in the country's January 2010 earthquake visit the mass grave site in Titanyen on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince March 21, 2011.

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.
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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.

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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.

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By October 1, schools in Haiti will re-open after the devastating January 12 earthquake that shattered the tiny nation. Thanks to the efforts of countless volunteers from Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), the Texas Baptist Convention, and American Baptist Churches, USA, Siloé School of the Grand Goâve Baptist Church will welcome nearly 350 new and returning Haitian students from kindergarten through 8th grade.
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Pastor Etienne Prophete was in Haiti during a mission trip when the country was struck by an earthquake in January. Since then he has been spending a lot time away from his home in Palm Beach County, helping the people in Haiti.
laura-silsby-speaking.jpgThe leader of an American group detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the January earthquake defended her actions upon her release, saying she was "wrongly accused and held without just cause."

Laura Silsby was freed in May after being convicted of arranging illegal travel and sentenced to time served. But another set of legal woes awaited her at home in Idaho. As she had been sitting in a Haitian jail, her ex-husband sought sole custody of their 5-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.

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BGEA chaplains continue to serve in Haiti even now.

The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) will equip Haitian pastors and church leadership to reach their nation for Christ.
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When the rubble is cleared away, the roads repaved and the buildings rebuilt, will the people of Haiti be back on their feet?

Haiti Today: Rebuilding Haiti will not be easy, nor will it happen quickly, but some urban planners have suggested that there may be a silver lining in the city's destruction. As with so many places that have been gutted by natural disasters, the earthquake in Haiti may give the nation the opportunity to construct a new capital that is stronger, healthier and more resilient. Tomorrow's Port-au-Prince could have the soul of the past and the structure of the future.
4haiti20841.jpgThe first predominantly African-American congregation from Florida to minister in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake returned to Tampa consumed by a kinship of hearts and spirit.
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A coalition of four Black Baptist groups have come together to form a volunteer association whose primary goal is to raise $50 million for Haitian relief.
haiti-voodoo-waterfall-05621.jpgPilgrims, partiers and profit-seekers flocked to a sacred Haitian waterfall Friday where Voodoo and Christian faithful prayed for a better life after six grueling months of post-earthquake trouble.
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An open door to Port-au-Prince's deaf community has given Florida Baptist relief workers a vision to seek out clusters of forgotten people left stranded by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Members of Haiti's deaf community in Port-au-Prince wait to receive food and medical treatment at the Florida Baptist Mission House.
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A Baptist church in northern Haiti has made an unprecedented gift of 20,000 gourdes ($506) to aid in the recovery from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The gift, though small by some standards, is the equivalent of about two years' wages in the Haitian economy.
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Allegations of adult sexual misconduct  has resulted in the revocation of a Haitian-born priest`s right to perform mass by The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
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It has been five months since the earthquake struck the island nation and some Haitians have been growing impatient with the lack of progress.
 
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