In response to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ deploying hundreds of additional officers and soldiers to the state’s southern coast to “protect” against Haitian migrants, Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami says “Haitians are not an ‘invasive species,’ and shouldn’t be treated as such.”
By The Tablet Staff Bishop Robert Brennan invites the faithful of the diocese to join him in prayer for Haiti at Mass on Monday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Innocents Parish in Flatbush. The church is that day’s stop on the Diocesan Lenten Pilgrimage. Haiti stands on the brink of civil war, as […]
For revelers at this year’s West Indian Day Parade, the festivities were an opportunity to embrace the culture of the Caribbean islands they descended from.
Kidnappers in Haiti released an American nurse and her daughter nearly two weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
A nurse from New Hampshire and her child are the latest victims of kidnapping in Haiti, according to reports. Alix Dorsainvil is a nurse for the Christian nonprofit community development group El Roi Haiti, based near the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on Saturday, June 3, was nearly filled to capacity and swelled with joy during the ordinations of Ernesto Alonso, 44; Thimote Cherelus, 37; Nnamdi Eusebius Eze, 39; and Samuel Mwiwawi, 40.
Many churches still struggle to rebuild from the 2021 earthquake in Haiti, but escalating gang violence is turning the situation from “bad to worse,” church leaders say. Nevertheless, they believe hope is alive in Haiti.
In about two months’ time, the one-year anniversary of a tragic earthquake and presidential assassination in Haiti will have passed, and the state of the Caribbean nation appears to be even worse, or as Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami describes: “as bad as it’s ever been.”
Standing behind the podium as the second ever Haitian American to be appointed a bishop in the United States, Bishop-designate Jacques Fabre highlighted how the mindset of people in his native country differs from that of Americans, and how that relates to his new role.
The first in what is envisioned as a series of webinars took place Feb. 16 to discuss how faith-based organizations are working together to assist Haitian families seeking refuge and assistance in the United States.
