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This belief was referenced by Christian media personality Pat Robertson in his controversial comments during the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Robertson declared the Haitian people "have been cursed by one thing after the other" since the 18th century after swearing "a pact to the devil". [14] Robertson's comments were denounced. [15]
In about 1767, Dutty Boukman was born in the region of Senegambia (present-day Senegal and Gambia), where he was an Muslim cleric.He was captured in Senegambia, and transported as a slave to the Caribbean, first to the island of Jamaica, then Saint-Domingue, modern-day Haiti, where he reverted to his indigenous religion and became a Haitian Vodou houngan priest. [1]
The reference to a "pact to the devil" was later said by CBN to be a reference to the Vodou ceremony conducted by Dutty Boukman involving animal sacrifice in Bois Caïman that began the Haitian revolution. Contrary to Robertson's claims however, this ceremony and the religion of Vodou in general does not involve Satan or devil worship. [115]
Henderson is talking about the Devil. Satan. Lucifer. Beelzebub. The Prince of Darkness. Lord of the Flies. Mephistopheles. God’s Opp and Jesus’ nemesis (try saying that three times).. I ...
It is time for Haiti’s so-called friends to stop chattering about the problems and step up. The longer nations wait to send a lifeline to Haiti, the more likelihood that there will be little to ...
"Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, and the Haiti Earthquake", Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism 39 (Nov 2012): 22–38. "From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History", Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 41:2 (June 2012): 187-215.
As Haiti’s armed gangs, already in control of some of the country’s strategic assets, threaten to overtake the National Palace to install their own president, Caribbean leaders prepare to meet ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁtʁɑ̃ aʁistid]; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état.