They swung their machetes. They stabbed innocent people. And a number of people died because they sent to worship on a Sunday morning. Father Aristide survived by the skin of his neck and went into hiding. Ten years later, the church of St. John Bosco still stands.
Christians still gather there.
I went with some friends to see it. It is a cinder block shell without a roof. There are no pews left, nothing but a few broken blocks for somebody to sit on. Yet every sabbath, they open the doors and it's standing room only. A priest stands up to read the Bible and preach.