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U.S. Bishops Send More Help to the Church in Haiti
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Bishops’ Subcommittee dedicated to administering money raised for Haiti after the earthquake there last January has approved $212,700 of funding for 10 projects. The grants were made from the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America to programs and agencies sponsored by parishes, religious orders and dioceses in Haiti. These grants do not include funding for construction projects, which will be considered according to a separate procedure.
From the Archdiocese of Miami, an update on rebuilding efforts in Haiti
MIAMI — Efforts to find interim shelter for Haiti’s homeless populations and local clergy and religious following the Jan. 12 earthquake remain the major aim of Church recovery there as the hurricane season gets underway.
Catholics Donate Almost $60 Million Through Special Sunday Collection for Haiti
WASHINGTON— A special Collection for Haiti in Catholic parishes nationwide has raised $58.7 million to date.
On January 13, one day after a devastating 7.0 earthquake destroyed much of Haiti’s capital, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, chairman of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), appealed to Catholics across the country to help Haiti through parish collections.
Haiti: Initial Food Distribution Rushed to Quake Survivors
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has been overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from Catholics across the U.S. in response to the needs of earthquake survivors in Haiti. The special collection from U.S. dioceses raised over $55 million for emergency help, and other contributions have brought in an additional $50 million. The USCCB Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America is partnering with CRS in the response. CRS is focusing now on rebuilding efforts —such as moving people from makeshift camps to temporary housing as the rainy station draws near— while the Bishops’ Advisory Group for Haiti of the Church in Latin America Committee will help rebuild the Church’s fabric and infrastructure in the Caribbean nation. This video shows how CRS put those donations to action in the days immediately following the quake.
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For the latest updates on CRS’ relief efforts for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, please visit CRS’ Haiti emergency landing page: http://crs.org/emergency/haiti/index.cfm
For information on how to make donations to help rebuild the Church in Haiti and updates go to http://www.usccb.org/nationalcollections/helphaiti/index.shtml.Haiti Earthquake - 7 weeks later
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USCCB Haiti Advisory Group visits Port-au-Prince March 1-3
A delegation of US bishops, including Cardenal Sean O'Malley of Boston, Archbishop José Gomez of San Antonio and Haitian-born Bishop Guy Sansiracq, Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, NY visited Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 1-3 to see firsthand the recovery efforts and to bring the love and concern of U.S. Catholics to their brothers and sisters in need. The bishops are members of a recently formed Haiti Advisory Group that will assist the US Church in advising how best to provide for the long-term needs of the Church in Haiti.
Medical personnel examine patient x-rays at daylight outside make-shift hospital in Port-au-Prince on March first. -
A scene from St. Francis de Sales Catholic hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 1, 2010, six weeks after the massive earthquake that left an estimated 300,000 people dead. -
Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston blesses an injured child. Cardinal O'Malley and a delegation of US bishops visited St. Francis de Sales Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, March 2
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A group of US bishops visited a tent city set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, March 2.
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US bishops pray for the late archbishop and vicar general of the diocese who were killed in the destroyed cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, March 2 during a trip to see firsthand the recovery efforts. The Bishops' Haiti Advisory Group will assist the US Church in advising how best to provide for the long-term needs of the Church in Haiti.
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Filles de Marie. A delegation of U.S. bishops celebrated Mass with the Filles de Marie (Daughters of Mary), a community of women religious in the Petionville area of Port-au-Prince Haiti, on Tuesday, March 2 during a visit to see firsthand the recovery efforts. The Filles de Marie lost 15 sisters and 11 others were wounded during the recent earthquake.
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The grave of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port au Prince, who died in the January 12 earthquake when the cathedral was destroyed.
Patients at St. Francis de Sales Hospital in Port-au-Prince have been treated under tents and tarps since the Jan. 12 earthquake. (CNS/Bob Roller)
USCCB Subcommittee on Church in Latin America Creates Haiti Advisory Group to Visit Haiti March 1-3
WASHINGTON—As part of the ongoing response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Archbishop José H. Gomez of San Antonio, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America, has created a Haiti Advisory Group to help assess the impact on the local Church. Haiti was hit by a 7.0 earthquake on January 12.
Hospital systems contribute $200,000 to rebuild Haiti’s renowned St. Francis de Sales Hospital
By Catholic News Service
Catholic hospital in the earthquake-ravaged capital of Haiti is getting a boost in its effort to rebuild from two U.S.-based health care systems with strong Catholic connections.
Catholic Health East in Newton Square, Pa., and BayCare Health Systems in Clearwater, Fla., this week donated $100,000 each toward the reconstruction of St. Francis de Sales Hospital in the center of Port-au-Prince.
Sign Up Now for a Live Webcast on the Church's Response to Haiti
On February 24, 2010 from 2:00-3:00 PM EST join a live webcast on "The Church Responds to Catastrpher in Haiti," sponsored by Catholics Confront Global Poverty, a joint initiative of USCCB and CRS. During the webcast, Annemarie Reilly, from Catholic Relief Services, will provide an overview of the situation on the ground. Joan Rosenhauer (CRS) will review the U.S. Catholic Churchs activities in support of the relief effort. USCCBs Steve Colecchi will share the bishops' policy framework for long-term reconstruction and development needs and provide an update on joint advocacy efforts. Sign up to attend now! Following the webcast, a recording will be available hereBishops Call for a Longterm Strategy in Haiti That Focuses on Poverty Reduction
WASHINGTON—The U.S. needs “a long-term coherent strategy for recovery, development and poverty reduction in Haiti,” helping Haiti rebuild and get back to the path of long-term sustainable development, said the chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace in a January 26 letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk.
Head of Subcommittee for Church in Latin America Makes Plea for Solidarity with the Church in Haiti
WASHINGTON—The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America, Archbishop José H. Gomez of San Antonio, TX, sent a letter January 22 to all U.S. bishops urging Catholics to donate to the Collection for the Church in Latin America. The collection is set to be taken up over the next few weekends in most dioceses, in solidarity with the tremendous losses the Church in Haiti has undergone.
WASHINGTON—Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed “profound sorrow and deepest condolences for the terrible tragedy” in Haiti in a January 21 letter to Archbishop Louis Kébreau of Cap-Haïtien, President of the Haitian bishops. The letter was presented by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Chairman of the Board of Catholic Relief Services, at the January 23 funeral of Port-au-Prince Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who died in the January 12 earthquake. Archbishop Dolan officially represented the U.S. Bishops at the funeral.
WASHINGTON—Christian Churches Together in the USA okayed a common action against poverty across the county for April 2, and issued a statement of solidarity with earthquake-stricken Haiti at their January 12-15 meeting outside Seattle.
WASHINGTON—Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, Chairman of the Board of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), will represent the U.S. Bishops at the Saturday, January 23, funeral of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot in Port-au-Prince Haiti. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asked Archbishop Dolan to serve as the representative of the U.S. Bishops.
U.S. Solidier Surveys Cathedral Destroyed by Earthquake in HAITI
A U.S. soldier surveys the ruins of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince Jan. 19, which was destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake rocked the capital of Haiti Jan. 12 - CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey, Jan. 20, 2010
Haiti, a country of 9 to 10 million people and 80% Catholic is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Standing in solidarity with our Haitian brothers and sisters the church in the United States through the USCCB’s Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America and has awarded $2,499,107 to pastoral projects in Haiti since 2000.
Ever conscious of the needs of the Church in Haiti, especially during times of natural disaster, funds from the annual Bishop’s Collection for the Church in Latin America have also been made available to rebuild churches and parish centers. Most recently, this included $150,000 to the Diocese of Jacmel following the devastating hurricanes Hanna and Ike in 2008.
A large portion of the 2010 Collection for Latin America, to be taken up in most dioceses the weekend of January 23-24 will be destined to rebuilding the Church’s infrastructure and tending to pastoral needs in Haiti.
WASHINGTON—In a letter sent to president Barack Obama on Friday, January 15, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked the White House to designate the country of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Video Messages of Archbishop Dolan Outline Haiti Devastation, Need for Generous Response
WASHINGTON—New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Chairman of Catholic Relief Services, appears in three Web videos addressing the devastation in Haiti in the wake of the January 12 earthquake and what Catholics can do to help.
The videos, shot during a January 13 interview in Rome with Catholic News Service, also note that the U.S. bishops have urged dioceses to take up a special collection the weekend of January 16-17 for humanitarian work in Haiti.
WASHINGTON—The Church mourns the terrible suffering of the people of Haiti, and parishes across the country are urged to take up a special collection the weekend of January 16-17 for the humanitarian efforts of the U.S. bishops and Catholic Relief Service (CRS) in Haiti, according to a January 13 letter to Catholic bishops of the United States from Cardinal Francis George of Chicago and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York.
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Residents search for victims Jan. 13 in Port-au-Prince after a major earthquake struck Haiti. A magnitude 7 quake rocked the poor Caribbean nation in the late afternoon Jan. 12 killing possibly thousands of people. (CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters) (Jan. 13, 2010) See stories HAITI- Jan. 13, 2010.
Bishops request collections for Haiti in all U.S. churches
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Parishes across the United States have been asked to take up a second collection Jan. 16-17 to help ease "the terrible suffering of our brothers and sisters in Haiti" after a magnitude 7 earthquake.
Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of Catholic Relief Services, said in a Jan. 13 letter that the funds collected will help "respond to immediate emergency needs for such necessities as water, food, shelter and medical care, as well as to the long-term need to rebuild after widespread destruction, and to the pastoral and reconstruction needs of the church in Haiti."
CRS distributes food from Haitian warehouses, Dominican Republic
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Although getting basic supplies such as food and water to the hundreds of thousands left homeless by Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake has been a Herculean task, aid workers were finding ways around traffic blockades, crowds of people and the country's lack of infrastructure.
Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, which is coordinating the church's relief and recovery efforts in Haiti, was able to get a jump-start on distributing aid because it already had warehouses filled with supplies in Haiti set up after the 2008 hurricanes in the region.
Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is pictured with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in this undated photo. (CNS/L'Osservatore Romano via Catholic Press Photo)
Haitian archbishop who died in quake portrayed as a humble man
By Barb Fraze
Catholic News Service
Archbishop Miot, 63, was among tens of thousands of Haitians who died in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Stories of hope, sadness emerge from earthquake ruins in Haiti
By Nancy Frazier O'Brien and Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Here is a collection of vignettes from Haiti:
Earthquake claims life of first Haitian-born Salesian brother
One of the tens of thousands of victims in the Haitian earthquake was Salesian Brother Hubert Sanon, 85.
Salesian Father Mark Hyde, executive director of the Salesian Missions based in New Rochelle, N.Y., said Brother Hubert was the first Haitian to become a Salesian brother.
Caritas aid reaches Haiti quake survivors
By Joeun Lee
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for Catholic charities, quickly delivered aid to the survivors of the Haiti earthquake but was in urgent need of additional relief materials.
The Caritas staff in Haiti visited devastated areas of the capital Port-au-Prince Jan. 13 to determine what the immediate needs were. At least 60 tents were distributed to families, and first aid was given to survivors in clinics and hospitals, Caritas said in a statement from its Vatican headquarters.
Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is pictured with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in this undated photo. (CNS/L'Osservatore Romano via Catholic Press Photo)
Chaotic conditions in Port-au-Prince limit rescue, recovery efforts
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince remained in a state of disorder and confusion at mid-afternoon Jan. 13 and little information was available on the number of casualties resulting from a devastating earthquake, a spokesman for Catholic Relief Services said.
"It is chaos there. Nobody knows how many people are killed or injured at this point," John Rivera, CRS director of communications, told Catholic News Service.
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