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Parish, Knights council to help rebuild church in Haiti
A parish that has provided 10 years of pastoral, medical and other assistance to a church in Haiti is branching out with a construction project.
St. Joseph the Worker and Knights of Columbus Council 13359, both in Maple Grove, are holding an Oct. 5 benefit dinner for sister parish St. Catherine d’ Alexandre in Bouzy, Haiti, which several months ago lost its church to damage from years of earthquakes and hurricanes.
Woman religious makes inroads in eradicating cholera in Haiti
As Sister Larraine Lauter held the tiny hand of an infant patient at a cholera clinic in Verrettes, Haiti, two years ago, she made a silent promise.
After violent protests left them stranded in Haiti, St. Joseph mission trip team home safe
Dave Berg can rest a little easier these days. He — and 16 other adults he led on a mission trip to Haiti — are home after protests over a spike in fuel prices closed airports, stranding them in the Caribbean nation.
Aid slowly makes its way to thousands of Haitians displaced by hurricane
Emergency aid slowly began to reach some of the thousands of Haitians displaced by Hurricane Matthew in the country’s picturesque southwest as reports of casualties slowly trickled in from communities cut off by the storm.
Hurricane Matthew tears through Haiti as aid workers prepare to respond
Wind-whipped rains from Hurricane Matthew shattered Haiti’s southwest peninsula, downing trees, ripping open makeshift wooden homes and causing widespread flooding Oct. 4 as aid workers waited for the storm to subside before mobilizing.
NPH celebrates 60 years of ‘raising children, transforming lives’
Locally, NPH will host its annual gala Oct. 3, when 15 children from NPH’s home in El Salvador will sing and dance, and then spend two weeks with a host family.
Day of Prayer for Vocations set for April 21
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Haiti priest to receive award from St. John’s
Providence Academy students score for charity
Priest serving Haiti’s poor awarded $1 million Opus Prize
The prize was awarded to Passionist Father Richard Frechette, founder of the St. Luke Foundation for Haiti, in a ceremony at St. Catherine University in St. Paul Nov. 8.
Sole-ful donations for Haitians
Claire Frances Baker, a ninth-grader at Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, has been collecting shoes for an orphanage in Haiti since an earthquake hit there in 2010.
Father Bernard Reiser named one of Eleven Who Care
Father Bernard Reiser received the Eleven Who Care award for his priestly contribution and support of Haiti projects through Reiser Relief Inc., a nonprofit organization he founded to help the poor people in Haiti.
Haiti after the earthquake, CRS videos
» Haiti One Year – Leading A Normal Life After the Earthquake
» You Helped Haiti, You Helped Me
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