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OSV News
Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
President Joe Biden has canceled his upcoming trip to Italy, including an audience with Pope Francis, in order to “remain focused on directing the full federal response” in the wake of the devastating wildfires raging in California, the White House said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
The head of a Catholic humanitarian agency in Lebanon told OSV News the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to be intact, as he and his team vow to assist those displaced by the conflict “wherever they settle.”
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News
The archbishop of Valencia presided over Mass celebrated by the Spanish bishops in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid Nov. 19 to pray for all those affected by the tragic end-of-October floods in Valencia, Albacete and Cuenca, where over 200 people lost their lives.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News
After back-to-back natural disasters in recent weeks, the Cuban people “are suffering immense hardships and … need our help,” said Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News
Catholic aid workers in Cuba are responding to back-to-back natural disasters on the island, after a hurricane and an earthquake struck the island within four days of each other.
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Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
With so many families lacking either home, renters or flood insurance, the slow business of finding temporary housing or rebuilding what was damaged after a storm requires time and usually an abundance of private and charitable resources.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News
At least 10 people, including a Catholic nun, have been killed in a volcanic eruption on Indonesia’s predominantly Catholic Flores Island.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
As Spain mourns the death of over 200 victims of the biggest peacetime disaster in decades, volunteers poured into the country’s Valencia region to give a helping hand in cleaning up and to offer support to the devastated community.
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The archbishop of Valencia expressed “grave concern” and said Mass for those affected after at least 63 people are feared dead, and many more went missing amid torrential rains that caused massive flooding in southeastern Spain.
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Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
As Hurricane Milton took aim at Florida just days after Hurricane Helene, Catholic Charities USA launched a dedicated disaster relief donation campaign.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
A St. Petersburg priest who is also president of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors took time out Oct. 8 to check on his elderly neighbors before Hurricane Milton was expected to make landfall the next night in this Gulf Coast region.
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Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Disaster Relief, Feature, Giving, News, World News
Helene — which made landfall in Florida late in the evening of Sept. 26 as a Category 4 Hurricane and was downgraded the next day — has been reported to be one of the deadliest storms in the U.S., with more than 215 people confirmed dead
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