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September 4, 2020

Visiting Lebanon, Cardinal Parolin emphasizes 'You are not alone'

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, with red sash, views the damage at Sacred Heart School near Beirut's port area Sept. 4, 2020, one month after the city suffered double blasts.

BEIRUT -- Bringing a message of hope to Lebanon, a month after a double blast struck Beirut, Pope Francis' closest collaborator assured the Lebanese: "You are not alone. The whole world supports you."

Published in International
September 7, 2017

Irma cuts deadly path in Caribbean as church officials prepare response

Children in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, carry containers for water Sept. 6 as Hurricane Irma races across the Caribbean. The hurricane was scheduled to hit the island later that night.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hurricane Irma cut a deadly path through the Caribbean, leveling entire islands as it moved toward Florida Sept. 7, while Haiti prepared for a potential disaster.

Published in International
August 15, 2017

Pope entrusts to Mary victims of disasters, conflict, social tension

Pope Francis gives a blessing during his Angelus prayer on the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15, at the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY – In a week in which natural disasters, war and racial conflicts dominated the headlines, Pope Francis prayed that Mary would bring peace to a divided world.

Published in Vatican
May 6, 2016

Relief efforts step up as Fort McMurray blaze spreads

Evacuated residents rest at a community center May 4 in Anzac, Alberta, after being ordered to be evacuated due to a raging wildfire. The wildfire has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray.

As firefighters continue the fight to save Fort McMurray from a wildfire that is threatening to consume the entire northern Alberta city, it is feared that St. Paul Church is one of the city’s structures that has been lost to flames.

Published in Canada
June 6, 2015

Caritas expertise key in Nepal rebuild

Fr. Pius Perumana, Caritas Nepal director, centre, gives instructions to staff at Assumption Catholic Church in Lalitpur May 1.

TORONTO - Nepalese are busy rebuilding their country a month after the first of two devastating earthquakes. But the mountainous Asian nation got its practice in disaster recovery putting communities back together during more than a decade of civil war between Maoist rebels and government forces — a war that set individual communities in violent opposition to one another.

Published in International