The number of Zombie attacks have risen in the last month, creating new tensions between the Voudouisant population and the rest of the citizenry. Several Vodou practitioners have been attacked in public for being at the root of the issue. Mayor O’Keefe says that the police department is stepping up patrols in The Garden District and Central Business District. Archbishop Michael Finn reports that church attendance seems to be approaching record levels. “When times are desperate,” the Archbishop said from the steps of the Archdiocese, “people return to the comforting hands of The Lord.”