Category: Natural disasters

Madagascar offers stark picture of how climate change can hurt a country

by bcadmin | Nov 15, 2022 | Catholic Relief Services, Church in Africa, Climate change, COP27, Environment Ecology, lead, Madagascar, Natural disasters, News, United Nations | 0 |

As world leaders meet for the United Nation’s COP27 climate change conference, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is highlighting the environmental crisis in Madagascar.

Archbishop says Nigeria must promote policies to limit damage from floods

by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Flooding, floods, Natural disasters, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |

Nigeria’s bishops urged the federal government to come up with a plan to fight flooding that affects Nigerians each year.

Helped after tornadoes, Catholics in western Ky. aid state’s flood victims

by bcadmin | Oct 23, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

Back in December 2021, when western Kentucky was devastated by historic tornadoes, Catholics from dioceses around the Bluegrass State responded by sending more than $2 million to help the Diocese of Owensboro respond to survivors’ needs.

Head of Miami Catholic Charities helps coordinate statewide response to Ian

by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Archdiocese of Miami, Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Florida, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

The world heard about Hurricane Ian’s devastation along coastal southwest Florida, but the Catholic Charities network of agencies also will focus on lesser known but equally stricken communities and devastated farmworker enclaves in the region.

Hurricane Ian shakes SW Florida’s faith but can’t destroy it

by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Bishop Frank Dewane, Church in the US, Florida, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

With the storm now passed and its devastation abounding, churches across hard-hit Southwest Florida are providing a steadying force in the lives of those plunged into chaos and grief.

Florida continues with rescue efforts as Hurricane Ian heads north

by bcadmin | Oct 3, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Florida, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

As authorities in Florida continued rescue efforts, Catholic parishes and dioceses in the U.S. moved rapidly to collect aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, and U.S. President Joe Biden said it could take years to rebuild what was destroyed.

Hurricane Ian leaves catastrophe in Florida, millions without power

by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Florida, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

It’s too early to tell the extent of the damage in the Catholic dioceses of Venice and St. Petersburg in Florida following a direct hit Sept. 28 by Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful hurricanes the state has seen.

‘Please pray for us,’ Cuban writes on diocesan Facebook post after Ian

by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Cuba, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

Hurricane Ian made landfall Sept. 27 in Cuba’s western region of Pinar del Rio, with sustained winds of 125 mph that took down the entire island’s electric grid.

Churches escape Fiona, but some Canadian farmers, fishers will suffer

by bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

Damage inflicted to church properties throughout the Canadian Maritimes by post-tropical storm Fiona has yet to be tabulated, but it seems for the most part Catholic Church property escaped relatively unscathed.

Florida bishop invites all to pray for God’s protection from Hurricane Ian

by bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Bishop Gregory Parkes, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

As the Tampa Bay area on Florida’s west coast prepared for Hurricane Ian, Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of St. Petersburg invited all in the diocese to pray to God “for the protection of life and property as we face this serious threat.”

‘Heart-breaking’: Irish priest says Pakistan flooding still critical

by bcadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Flooding, floods, Natural disasters, News, Pakistan | 0 |

An Irish missionary priest in Pakistan said the “sheer scale” of the flooding disaster is “hard to comprehend” and “the misery of people, camped on the side of the road with their meager belongings, is heart-breaking to see.”

Catholic Church at forefront of flood relief efforts in Pakistan

by bcadmin | Sep 23, 2022 | Caritas, Church in Asia, Flooding, floods, lead, Natural disasters, News, Pakistan | 0 |

Catholic leaders in Pakistan are working to help people affected by devastating floods that have displaced over 7 million people.