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African floods ‘wiped out entire villages’ after cyclone, says Jesuit

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS)—More than 2 million people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi have been affected by a cyclone that has killed more than 700 people, with hundreds still missing in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The scale of devastation is enormous, said Father Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, president of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar, noting that the […] Full Story

• Hope from the ashes: President, archbishop vow to rebuild Notre Dame

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published April 16, 2019

  Notre Dame Cathedral is “the result of hundreds and hundreds of years of development” with an initial idea, a long and labor-intensive construction process, design changes, additions, demolitions and remodeling over and over again as fashions and usages change, according to a professor from Notre Dame University in Indiana.

• Blaze erupts at Paris’ iconic Notre Dame Cathedral; cause unknown

  

  Published April 15, 2019

  PARIS (CNS) — A major blaze engulfed the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral April 15, sending pillars of flame and billowing smoke over the center of the French capital. The fire erupted about 6:30 p.m. local time, and authorities said the cause was not certain but that it could be linked to renovation work that the […] Full Story | En Español

• Malteser International helping Venezuelan refugees

  

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published March 7, 2019

  RIOHACHA, Colombia—Amid political unrest in Venezuela, those opposing embattled President Nicolas Maduro fight to deliver humanitarian aid into the country. Malteser International steadfastly labors to provide medical and other care across the border in northern Colombia to desperate refugees and impoverished indigenous people in the departments of La Guajira and Magdalena. In Riohacha, La Guajira, […] Full Story | En Español