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May 19, 2015

D&P's Nepal aid tops $600,000

Father Ignatius Rai, vicar of Assumption Parish in Lalitpur, Nepal, chats May 9 with 85-year old Padam Kumari Magar, who had crawled out unscathed from the rubble of her stone home on Baretol Mountain after the April 25 earthquake.

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has so far collected $600,800 for relief efforts in Nepal.

The development arm of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development will match all funds collected by May 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