Haiti Archives - Page 6 of 7

Haitians worship among devastation caused by hurricane

Associated Press, Global Church
Oct 10, 2016

Survivors of Hurricane Matthew put on their Sunday finest and picked their way through downed power lines to sing praise and pray in ruined churches, while desperation grew in other parts of devastated Haiti and international rescue efforts began ramping up.

Pope Francis writes Haiti to express sorrow, prayer

Vatican
Oct 7, 2016

As Hurricane Matthew pounds Haiti, leaving more than 300 dead and thousands injured, Pope Francis has written to console those who’ve lost a loved one, assuring Haiti of his prayers and spiritual closeness, and entrusting the country to the protection of Mary.

Hurricane help in Haiti slowed by blocked roads, floods, outages

Catholic News Service, Global Church
Oct 7, 2016

First responders and NGO aid workers in Haiti are assessing the damage from Hurricane Matthew even as they scrambled to deliver food, water and shelter materials to communities isolated by washed-out bridges and blocked roads.

Priest in Haiti with passion for mission tells God to ‘hurry up’

Catholic News Service
Oct 1, 2016

A new documentary of a remarkable Haitian priest, Father Joseph Philippe, says that over a long career of mission, he spends part of almost every day arguing with God. “I want him to hurry up!” Philippe said. Otherwise, he added, “he gets an ‘I,’ for incomplete.”

Murdered nun in Haiti incarnated the spirit of Mother Teresa

Global Church
Sep 6, 2016

While Pope Francis was declaring Mother Teresa a saint in Rome, another strong-willed nun who exemplified her spirit, Sister Isabel Sola Matas, was being killed in Haiti after giving her life in service to some of the world’s poorest people.

In Haiti and elsewhere, a ‘Francis effect’ could overcome donor fatigue

Church
Jan 11, 2015

ROME — On the five-year anniversary of a mammoth earthquake that left 100,000 to 300,000 people dead in Haiti, laying waste to what was already one of the poorest nations in the world, Pope Francis met participants in a Vatican conference on rebuilding on Saturday and told them much remains