23158: (Chamberlain) Haiti-Pastor Killed (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 13 (AP) -- An evangelical pastor with a well-known
radio program was shot to death in Haiti's capital on Monday, police said.
   The Rev. Moleste Lovinsky Bertomieux had just left his home and was on
his way to work at independent Radio Caraibes when he was shot three times,
according to journalists at the station.
   He was being driven to work when the shooting happened, police said.
Bertomieux's chauffeur was being questioned.
   Bertomieux, who's in his mid-40s, had a morning radio show of religious
songs and prayer, said Patrick Mounsignac, Radio Caraibes' owner.
   Bertomieux had worked at Radio Caraibes for 20 years and was host of "La
Manne du Matin," or Godsend of the morning.
   He'd also founded a primary and secondary school with the same name in
the capital, Port-au-Prince.
   Bertomieux's show was probably the most listened to radio show in the
Caribbean country of 8 million residents, said Joseph Guyler Delva, head of
the Haitian Journalists Association.
   "Everyone listened to him, even those not from the Protestant church,"
he said.
   In 1995, Bertomieux made an unsuccessful bid for the lower house of
Parliament for the National Congress of Democratic Movements Party,
Mounsignac said, but he was not overtly political on the radio.
   He is survived by his wife, who is about six months pregnant with their
first child, Mounsignac said.