Five days after a magnitude 7.0 temblor struck the impoverished island nation of Haiti, the death toll is still unknown, corpses still litter the streets, the effort to offer immediate aid is hampered by disjointed coordination between various countries’ and NGOs’ efforts, city dwellers are moving to rural areas not affected by the quake (and the disease that unburied bodies can bring) but harder to move food and water to, and the possibility for civil unrest as the misery continues remains very real.

Here are some of the key stories coming out of Haiti today:

• Haitians gathered at a collapsed cathedral and other places of worship to pray on Sunday. “Why give thanks to God? Because we are here,” the Rev. Eric Toussaint said. “We say ‘Thank you God.’ What happened is the will of God. We are in the hands of God now.”
• The AP has a very disturbing — and very necessary to read — story about the 85 surviving residents of a nursing home who have no food, water or medicine… and are located JUST A MILE from the Port-au-Prince airport where all the relief efforts and visiting dignitaries have congregated.

• U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon landed in Haiti on Sunday. The U.N. reports that more than 70 people have been dug out of rubble by international search-and-rescue teams.
• Fox News’ Adam Housley, blogging reports about the situation, says that the security situation in Haiti is deteriorating. Read his updates.
• The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a pdf map showing exactly which areas were affected by the shaking, and to what degree.
• Death toll estimates are still anyone’s guess, but the U.S. general running the military relief effort in Haiti said that the toll could reach as high as 200,000. For a frame of reference, the toll from the 2004 tsunami that hit 14 nations was nearly 230,000. Bodies are being buried in mass graves without identification, and the Haitian government says it has collected 20,000 bodies already.

Nonprofits Guide Joanne Fritz has a variety of links for those wishing to donate to the relief effort. I’d add Catholic Relief Services, which already had a strong presence in the country, is trucking in more supplies overland from its HQ in the Dominican Republic, and whose headquarters in Haiti did not collapse.

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