It was 7:00 am on the 18th of June. Mourners filled the cathedral of Port-Au-Prince to honor the late priest, Gerard Jean-Juste. Most likely, none foresaw that the UN would bring its violent campaign against the Lavalas movement to the cathedral just after the service ended.

Lancaster filmmaker Mark Myers is bringing hurricane-devastated Haiti into American churches.

There was no warning when the overloaded sailboat plowed into a coral reef and began to break apart.

Dozens of anxious Haitians waited at an airport Thursday to learn whether family members were among the survivors of a sailboat packed with migrants that struck a coral reef and broke apart, killing at least 15 people and leaving dozens missing.

Some of the deadliest and most famous civilian maritime disasters: - July 26 or 27, 2009: A sailboat overloaded with Haitian migrants capsizes off the Turks and Caicos Islands.

In the News today:Hopes dim for missing Haitian shipwreck victims1. I cannot imagine being so desperate to take this kind of risk. Sad.2. I cannot imagine writing an article where I thought this was a super important quote to include (or new information) - "the more time the human body spends in...

Hundreds of members of popular organizations marched through Port-au-Prince in a large and spirited but peaceful demonstration on Tuesday, July 28, 2009.

There was no warning when the overloaded sailboat plowed into a coral reef and began to break apart.

3, No. 2 by Kim Ives The young man who appears to have been gunned down by UN occupation troops after a funeral last month received an all but secret funeral himself on July 14 in Port-au-Prince because the priest and family were fearful of UN and Haitian government reprisals.

The U.S. Coast Guard is ready to send more choppers into the shark-infested waters off this Caribbean paradise Wednesday in search of more survivors in a tragedy that has so far claimed at least 15 lives.