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Miracle rescues continue despite frustration from relief workers The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 6.1 magnitude quake struck Haiti at approximately 6:00 am Eastern this morning. The quake was centered about 35 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince. The quake sent Haitians running into the streets screaming in terror and widespread panic

NEW ORLEANS (NNS) -- Operating initially out of a pierside warehouse and then the parish Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at a nearby oil refinery, corpsmen from USS Shreveport (LPD 12) conducted immunizations for more than a thousand local and federal relief workers in September. Six hospital corpsmen worked in daily shifts to provide Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and tetanus shots to Marines, National Guardsmen, sheriffs, firemen and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel. Some evacuees and media members also benefited from the free inoculation service. Relief workers are particularly vulnerable to illness and disease because of potential exposure to blood,...

NEW ORLEANS (AFPN) -- Chaplain (Capt.) Dan Thompson admits he has never preached from an airline podium before. Then again, many aspects about the massive relief effort going on at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport are a first. The Air Force chaplain from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., was joined by Army chaplains to conduct the first chapel service held at the airport since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans on Aug. 29. “It’s kind of like a holy huddle at the end of a rough week,” said Army Sgt. Carlos Ignacio, a military policeman from the California National Guard...

Baptists not alone in grief over 4 murdered relief workers in northern Iraq, IMB says Mar 16, 2004 By Mark Kelly RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Southern Baptists struggling with the loss of four workers and the wounding of a fifth in Iraq know that many others are mourning too, an International Mission Board leader said March 16 in a news conference at the board’s Richmond, Va., headquarters. "We are grieving the loss of four colleagues and are concerned for a fifth colleague," said Clyde Meador, the board's executive vice president. "We know we are not alone in our grief. "Many Americans and...