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Pope earmarks Holy Thursday collection for rebuilding Haiti’s seminary

Vatican City (CNS) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Benedict XVI has decided the collection taken up at his Holy Thursday evening Mass will be used to help rebuild Haiti’s major seminary in Port-au-Prince. The seminary was reduced to rubble by the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck on January 12. echo $variable;

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Caritas workers in Haiti supply aid to at least 50,000 people

Vatican City (CNS) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) The major Catholic aid agencies in Haiti have continued to step up their assistance to the devastated country, feeding tens of thousands of people as the rebuilding effort begins. Caritas Haiti and the U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services were delivering nearly 100 tons of food to Port-au-Prince during the week of Jan. 25

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Vatican to donate profits from commemorative stamp to Haiti

Vatican City (CNS) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Vatican will donate to the people of Haiti profits from the sale of a stamp commemorating the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace in Mentorella, Italy. The initiative, promoted by the Vatican stamp and coin office and the office governing Vatican City State, could reap about 150,000 euros (US$211,480) for those

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Agencies boost effort to help Haitians injured, left homeless by quake

Washington (CNS) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNS) Facing a growing humanitarian crisis after the largest earthquake in Haiti in two centuries, Catholic aid agencies and world governments were boosting efforts to respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of injured and homeless. echo $variable;

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Haitian archbishop who died in quake portrayed as a humble man

Washington (CNS) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNS) Haitian Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot was known as a humble man who was close to the poor in Port-au-Prince archdiocese. Archbishop Miot, 63, was among tens of thousands of Haitians who died in the Jan. 12 earthquake. For years he served as president of the Haitian bishops’ justice and peace commission, and he

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Faith-based groups look for unified fight against effects of HIV

Michael Otto — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0000

MEXICO CITY (CNS) Early in the 1990s, Aids appeared to be ravaging Haiti in the same way the virus was devastating sub-Saharan Africa; almost 10 per cent of the adults of the impoverished Caribbean island were HIV-positive, and the number was increasing every year. echo $variable;

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