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April 18, 2017

Arsonists attempt to set fire to cathedral in Nepal's capital

Arsonists attempted to set fire to Assumption Cathedral, the first public Catholic worship place in Hindu-majority Nepal April 18.

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Arsonists attempted to set fire to Assumption Cathedral, the first public Catholic worship place in Hindu-majority Nepal.

Published in International
August 8, 2015

Missionaries of Charity care for the dying in Nepal’s holiest temple

An elderly woman kisses the hand of Sister Marica of the Missionaries of Charity at a home for the elderly in the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, July 4. The nuns have been caring for the dying and the elderly sick at the destitute center since 1978, when Mother Teresa initiated the service at the Nepal's holiest Hindu temple.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Every Saturday morning businessman Rajan Silwal rushes to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu to see a few friends.

Published in International
May 20, 2015

Nepal authorities try to block Missionaries of Charity delivering aid

A member of the Missionaries of Charity helps distribute relief items to earthquake victims May 16 in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Members of the Missionaries of Charity had to spend more than two hours waiting at police headquarters for clearance before they could deliver food, blankets and other promised relief to earthquake victims in a remote mountainous area of Nepal.

Published in International
May 15, 2015

Church workers reach out to quake victims in remote Himalayan villages

Subu Pariyar and his children sit inside a makeshift shelter May 9 on top of Baretol mountain in Nepal. Their home was destroyed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake April 25.

NAMJUNG, Nepal - "Sir, because of luck, we all survived. But, we may die of hunger," Mithuram Pariyar said when a church relief team arrived after a four-hour drive from Kathmandu.

Published in International
May 11, 2015

Relief items in short supply in landlocked Nepal

Marta Titaniec, projects coordinator of Caritas Poland, distributes sweets to inmates of the Children’s Home for prisoners’ children at Sankhu village outside Kathmandu, Nepal, May 7. Caritas Poland has brought a Polish air force plane with more than 14,500 kilograms of relief material for the victims of the April 25 Nepal earthquake.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Anam Tamang was excited: A truck of earthquake relief supplies had finally arrived at Caritas Nepal headquarters in Kathmandu.

Published in International
May 8, 2015

Resilient Nepalis will rebuild, Jesuit says

Earthquake survivors select clothes from a relief material delivery near Gorkha, Nepal, May 1.

The April 25 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 and left close to 15,000 injured was bad, but “it could have been terribly, terribly worse,” said Canadian Jesuit Father Bill Robins.

Published in International
May 4, 2015

Week after quake, trucks of aid begin reaching remote areas of Nepal

Canadian tourists Tave Teloye and his children Alan and Juliet prepare lentil packets for earthquake victims May 1 at Assumption Catholic Church in Lalitpur, Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Truckloads of relief material organized by church charities began moving across Nepal a week after the Himalayan nation was rocked by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake April 25.

Published in International
April 29, 2015

Pope prays for Nepal quake victims, sends donation, urges solidarity

Prabin Shresta, a member of a Salesian relief team called Nepal Don Bosco Society, provides a snack to earthquake survivors April 26. Inclement weather and logistical pressures have slowed down relief for Nepal earthquake victims.

VATICAN CITY - Santosh Kumar Magar said he was attending the ordination of a new priest in Okhaldhunga, a remote part of eastern Nepal, when the devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit April 25.

Published in International
April 28, 2015

Inclement weather, logistical issues delay aid for Nepal quake victims

Survivors look at destroyed buildings April 27 following an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. More than 3,600 people were known to have been killed and more than 6,500 others injured after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit a mountainous region near Kathmandu April 25.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Inclement weather and logistical pressures were delaying aid to hundreds of thousands of Nepalese earthquake victims.

Published in International