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With an intervention delivered by Max Weber, a student at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, the World Council of Churches expressed deep concern for human rights in Haiti. 

Le Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a exprimé sa solidarité et dédié ses prières aux personnes et aux Églises d’Haïti à la suite du tremblement de terre de magnitude 7,2 qui a frappé ce pays le 14 août, faisant plus de 1 300 morts et plusieurs milliers de blessés.

Le gouvernement haïtien a déclaré l’état d’urgence.

As reports of casualties and loss grow in Haiti in the wake of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on 14 August, a tropical depression was threatening the same area two days later.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) reached out in solidarity and prayer to people and churches in Haiti in the wake of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti, on 14 August. 

The Haitian government declared a state of emergency, with 1,300 dead and several thousands injured.

A court decision in the Dominican Republic annulling the citizenship of an estimated 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian ancestry has been strongly criticized by church leaders, including the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Des responsables d’Église ont vivement critiqué la décision d’un tribunal de République dominicaine de déchoir de leur citoyenneté 200'000 Dominicains d’origine haïtienne.