Haiti mourns quake victims one month on

Thousands of Haitians crowded into churches in the capital today for a national day of mourning a month after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people.

Parishioners filled churches in Port-au-Prince’s Petionville suburb and set up loudspeakers so those in the streets could follow. Religious leaders gathered for an ecumenical ceremony near Haiti’s shattered National Palace to pay their respects to the dead.