Dear family and friends,
As we have made our way through the weeks celebrating Easter, Ascension and soon Pentecost, the sufferings in which we accompany the Haitian people are the farthest you can imagine from being joyful and consoling.
Since Lent began in March, many farmers, young and old, have been killed in their fields in Berlot (Kenscoff Mountains). A whole family was burned alive in nearby Pernier. Four members of a parish youth group were hung by their arms from the Church rafters in Carrefour Bert (Kenscoff Mountains), and one of the security agents from our orphanage was brutally killed and his body burned in Furcy.
These are terrors just from only the past few weeks, and only some of those near us. We are in our fifth year of these vicious attacks by gangs on the population, country wide. Imagine the depth of the national suffering.