Haiti needs help. Christians must respond

After armed gangs took control of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, last month, violence has led to more than 50,000 people fleeing the city. Lord Leslie Griffiths, who lived in Haiti for many years, makes an impassioned plea for help

Haiti is a country unknown to most people and mystifying to those who claim to know it. It was the richest of France’s colonies until, in the last decade of the 18^th century, under the astonishing leadership of Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jaques Dessalines, its slaves rose up against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and seized their independence.