Haiti Christians Pray After Death, Destruction And “Miracle” Survival

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (Worthy News)-- Amid destroyed churches and the stench of human death, native Christians prayed for Haiti Sunday, January 24, and one believer said it was a miracle he had been found alive a full 11 days after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook his nation.

Wismond Exantus, 24, was plucked to safety at the weekend – hours after Haiti's government officially declared the search for survivors over.

Exantus thanked God for saving his life and added that he survived on cola, crisps, beer and whisky. At least 200,000 other Haitians are believed to have died in the disaster.

Exantus, a cashier, was at work in the ground-floor shop of the four-storey Napoli Inn in the capital Port-au-Prince when Haiti's worst earthquake in over 200 years struck Tuesday, January 12.

His family approached a Greek journalist on the street saying they had heard noises coming from underneath a building. The Greek journalist said he also heard the sound and approached a Greek rescue team.

They and American and French teams eventually managed to pull the man out of the rubble. "Every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive. It was God who was tucking me away in his arms. It gave me strength," Exantus told reporters.