While Chile's seismic activity registered as the seventh-most powerful earthquake in recorded history, that power hasn't come close to motivating the kind of benevolent giving that Haiti experienced.
An uneasy calm prevailed in Plateau state, Nigeria today following the killing of hundreds of Christians early Sunday morning in three farming villages near Jos by ethnic Fulani Muslims.
An Egyptian court acquitted this week four Muslims accused of killing 61-year-old Farouk Attallah last October, ensuring impunity for attacks on Coptic communities.
In the early stages of disaster relief, the needs in both countries are almost identical. But the back-to-back disasters have revealed a stark contrast in the two countries' needs.
Attacks on Christians last month in Punjab state following protests against banners depicting Jesus drinking and smoking were eerily similar to the anti-Christian violence in Orissa state in 2007 and 2008, according to a fact-finding mission.
Disaster relief officials are faced with a challenging task, trying to arrange assistance to victims of Chile's massive 8.8 earthquake while maintaining full-speed ahead operations in Haiti.
The head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Zamfara state told Compass that he was disappointed in the lack of response by state police to recent church burnings by Muslim youths.
In the wake of an attack this week by 150 armed Muslims on a Christian colony, police have filed a false report against 40 unnamed Christians and arrested five.
Hundreds of demonstrators from outside areas try to create image of local opposition.
Thrust from their homes in Bhutan after Buddhist rulers embarked on an ethnic and religious purge, Christian refugees in Nepal face hostilities from Hindus and others
