PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The money materialized as soon as Colombia’s president confirmed his visit to southern Haiti. The Haitian government invested more than $3.8 million to more than double ...

There had been a big rainstorm the night before Michael Magers’ first Kanaval. The annual February festivities are a long-held tradition in Jacmel, an artisan community in Haiti famous for elevating ...

JACMEL, Haiti – Two men pivot and slide in a forest clearing, their bodies weaving before a handful of spectators in what could be a graceful dance except that each waves a machete, blades glinting in ...

In Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince, rifle-wielding gunmen rape, kidnap and pillage while people fleeing their homes hide in school yards, abandoned buildings and soiled makeshift camps. In ...

Almost a year after playing New York's fabled Carnegie Hall, several members of the Utah Symphony performed at a venue their music director, Thierry Fischer, deemed equally important to the ...

On Haiti's southern coast, the country's fourth-largest city, Jacmel, is known for its arts and French colonial architecture. In the first days after the Jan. 12 quake, it was largely cut off from the ...

In 325 A.D., Constantine’s Nicene Council decreed a date for commemorating Jesus’ rise and declared that during its lead-up, no meat should pass the faithful’s lips. Constantine wasn’t issuing an ...

Medical clinic is being built on donated land Second floor will be a guest house to generate income for health services Haiti wants tourism to be part of its recovery plan WILMINGTON, Del. — A year ...

JACMEL, HAITI — For five months, they lived by the light of the sun. In a town without power, there were no televisions to watch and no refrigerators to fill. There was only the eerie glow of ...

Sister Marilyn Minter was “sitting in my chair praying with the word” when everything began “to shake like crazy” on the night of Aug. 14. She and the other sisters ran out of the Felician community ...