Word: churches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ritual of Haitian politics, what was happening was a dechoukage, a "rooting out" of Duvalierists. The military and civilian mutinies appear to have been provoked by the barbarism of an attack on worshipers at a Port- au-Prince church, St. Jean Bosco, three Sundays ago. The attack, which left 13 dead and 77 injured, was staged by the Tonton Macoutes, the vicious thugs who terrorized Haiti under the Duvaliers. Under Lieut. General Henri Namphy, leader of the just ousted regime, and particularly Port-au-Prince mayor Franck Romain, the Macoutes have enjoyed a comeback...
Memorial services will be held Sunday, October 30 at Memorial Church...
...proved unworthy of the divinity we bestowed upon you. Gods do not need steroids. Your church is empty, Ben. We have found other gods...
Powers said that to prepare the land for sale, the parish must find out what chemicals, in what concentrations, are present, how much of the area is contaminated, and how much it will cost to clean up, she said. Right now, the church is working on the second of the three steps...
...Paul's thought the wastes could have come from the residential neighborhood that stood on the land during the 1950s, she said. The lead traces could have come from paint on the houses, and the arsenic from rat poisons used more than 30 years ago. As far as church officials know, no factories ever existed on the land, she said...