by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2010 | Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
More from the CM Province in Chile through Facebook “Earthquake: Mobilizing to help in assisting our brothers and sisters.” Wednesday at 4:46 pm: 795 dead is the new figure given by the Government. The number of missing is not certain. At least two million...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 28, 2010 | Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
The editor of the CM Province’s Facebook Page writes, “Let’s try to summarize what happened in Chile, as a result of an earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale and the subsequent tsunamis produced in several places. The earthquake affected the regions...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 28, 2010 | Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
We’ve heard from the Daughters of Charity in Tome and Talcahuano. They are well after the shock. In Tome, the tsunami would have reached Marguerite Nasseau School, but we have no report of damage. In Maule a sister of a Daughter of Charity has been rescued alive...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 27, 2010 | Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
In the wake of the earthquake in HaitÃ, the Vincentian Family and the people with whom they serve and and live are enduring another trial: this time in Chile. We have not heard much, but we have the following news through the C.M. province’s Facebook presence,...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 25, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
“With God’s blessing, for five days we had the privilege, to share the present reality of life with our Sisters of Haiti, in the heart of a people profoundly marked by suffering. Some reflections and video on the visit of Sr. Evelyne Franc, Superioress General...