Protestant and especially Pentecostal Christianity has grown very rapidly in Haiti over recent decades, and its relationship with Vodou differs sharply from Catholicism's. Where the Catholic Church tolerated a double practice for long periods, evangelical churches require an explicit renunciation: the lwa are identified as demons, converts are asked to destroy altars and objects, and deliverance from ancestral spirits is a central rite. Conversion therefore breaks the inherited obligation deliberately, which is precisely the appeal for people who experience those obligations as an unpayable debt. After the January 2010 earthquake, some prominent preachers publicly attributed the disaster to Vodou and to the supposed pact at Bwa Kayiman — an assertion also made by the American broadcaster Pat Robertson — and Vodou ceremonies held for the dead in the following weeks were disrupted and attacked by crowds, with stone-throwing reported at services in Port-au-Prince.