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Winter storm halts nearly everything but Texas hospitality
- Feb 24, 2021
The Burton family from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were on the way home from a New Mexico skiing vacation when the worst winter storm in recent Texas history brought the state to a perpetual halt.
Bishops say fellow Texans’ help for one another amid storm is ‘edifying’
- Feb 22, 2021
The Catholic bishops of Texas said Feb. 20 that the generosity of their fellow Texans reaching out to help their neighbors, even while they are also managing their own needs during a historic winter storm, “is truly edifying.”
Houston Catholics struggle with historic storm, power outages
- Feb 20, 2021
The historic winter storms in February shattered electric plants across Texas, prompting energy providers to force blackouts across the state to preserve what fragile electricity they could generate. At least 49 deaths have been linked to the storms and subsequent power outages.
Congregations still recovering from August’s derecho
- Feb 20, 2021
As congregations already were struggling with meeting restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic, a derecho caused millions of dollars of damage six months ago to religious centers across Iowa.
10 years after quake, Christ Church Cathedral finally rising
- Feb 20, 2021
The Christ Church Cathedral was arguably New Zealand’s most iconic building before much of it crumbled in an earthquake 10 years ago. The years of debate that followed over whether the ruins should be rebuilt or demolished came to symbolize the paralysis that has sometimes afflicted the broader rebuild of Christchurch.
Winter storm’s grip doesn’t stop ministries, outreach in Dallas Diocese
- Feb 19, 2021
Despite the grip the historic winter storm had on north Texas, faith fueled outreach to Catholics and other community members in the Diocese of Dallas.
CCUSA receives $1 million grant to help fire-devastated communities
- Feb 14, 2021
A $1 million grant will allow 10 Catholic Charities agencies in four wildfire-stricken Western states to provide assistance to people burned out of their homes.
Catholic leaders urge TPS for Central Americans, aid for storm-ravaged nations
- Feb 11, 2021
Two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen and the head of Catholics Relief Services asked the Biden administration Feb. 10 to grant Temporary Protected Status for 18 months to foreign nationals from Central America in the United States and to provide aid to their hurricane-ravaged countries.
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