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Fast Facts About Haiti

Discovered by Columbus in 1492.
Haiti won its independence from France on January 1, 1804.
Population of nearly 10 million people.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
80% of the population in Haiti is living under the poverty line.
Most Haitians live on less than $2 a day.
More than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs.
Haiti is slightly smaller than Maryland.
The Haiti telecommunications infrastructure is among the least developed in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Haiti has 14 airports; 4 have paved runways.
Haiti’s capital is Porte-au-Prince, a coastal city with about 2 million inhabitants.

Reaching Haiti for Christ

Haiti is 95% Roman Catholic, although about 75% of those are involved in Voodoo, West African spiritism and witchcraft.
In 2003 Voodoo was declared a national religion.
There is freedom of religion in Haiti.

Pray For...

Evangelical Christians to openly stand against voodooism and African spiritism.

Freedom from the bondage of the past, including Haiti's history of Spanish slavery and cruelties of voodoo and tyranny.

Godly leaders for Haiti to put first the good of the nation by addressing its massive infrastructure problems and poverty.

The steady growth of protestant churches in a difficult spiritual and economic climate.

Troy Bush		Missions Pastor		tbush@crosspointechurch.com
Renee Song		Missions Ministry Assistant		rsong@crosspointechurch.com

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