29163: Boisvert (comment) Sacrilege in Les Cayes (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Marc R. Boisvert <espwahaiti@gmail.com>

I've been working in southern Haiti for nine years.  There is crime here,
mostly theft, but it is nothing like what is happening in parts of
Port-au-Prince.  The people here are generally passive politically.  They
were the last to get involved with the uprising that saw Aristide leave.  I
was therefore quite surprised this morning when I heard what had happened
last night to the second major Catholic church in Les Cayes.  The church,
Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart), was ransacked, sacrilegious slogans were
spray-painted on the walls and columns of the church and the sacristy where
the holy books and vestments are kept was set ablaze.  All the Catholic
schools closed their gates today in protest of this scandalous vandalism.

The shooting of an older Missionary of Charity (Mother Theresa's nuns), the
kidnappings of priests and religious, and now this.  Seems the Catholic
Church in Haiti no longer is respected as it used to be.  Signs of the
times?

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Marc R. Boisvert
http://pwojeespwa.blogspot.com
www.theoswork.org