Topic: Caribbean
AP News | 2010-03-13 18:10:53
In this photo made March 7, 2010, Haitian orphans Merline Augustaur, left, and Rotegaland Wilfrid pray during mass at the mountain village of Camatin, Haiti. Merline was relocated to Camatin after the orphanage at Coq Chante collapsed during the Jan ...
AP News | 2010-03-14 11:35:25
'Our Girls': A church called to the suburbs find its purpose on a Haitian mountaintop
Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie. Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the girls' grinning, impish faces across a folding table in the lobby, then prayed for the day they might join them. When the churchgoers closed their eyes and bowed their ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-13 20:10:17
Jean Ferrat, a French singer-songwriter whose communist views saw many of his compositions banned from broadcast in the 1960s, died on Saturday, officials said. He was 79. "He died in hospital in Aubenas," where he had been admitted a few days earlier, the sub-prefecture in Tournon-sur-Rhone told AFP. As prolific as he was discreet, Ferrat wrote and performed about 200 ...
