From Haiti-
The iron gates that lead from the small chapel to the main church have been chained shut.
Paper signs in Creole and French plead for help with rebuilding.
The main part of St. Pierre Catholic Church is still standing, unlike some other places of worship. Both the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals in Port-au-Prince now lie in ruins.
But St. Pierre was damaged enough by the earthquake that services are now conducted in the adjacent chapel, leaving congregants to spill out into two courtyards to sing the traditional Peuple d'Haïti, ton Dieu te fait signe.
Haiti was already a deeply religious and spiritual country.
It's a place where, at 5 a.m. on a Sunday, the massed roosters of Petionville vie with evangelical preachers on loudspeakers, a predawn duet of murder and salvation.
More here-
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/779823--haiti-s-religious-ground-rumbles
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