Quake survivors attend Mass amid the ruins

Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince’s destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse.

“Why give thanks to God? Because we are here,” said the Rev Eric Toussaint. “We say ’Thank you God.’ What happened is the will of God. We are in the hands of God now.”