Sightings Articles

Catholocism and Voodoo after the Haiti Earthquake by Jonathan C. Bergman

Haiti subscribes to two major religions—Voodoo and Catholicism—with born again Christians making great inroads in the past decade. The success of Haitian religious leaders in this time frame has spurred a series of “crusades” to aggressively minister...

April 21, 2011

The Haiti Earthquake One Year Later: A Survey of Religious Disaster Relief by Jonathan C. Bergman

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti just sixteen miles outside the capital city, Port-au-Prince. The quake left approximately 200,000 dead, more than a million displaced, and an infrastructure in tatters....

February 3, 2011