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Still recovering from Maria, Puerto Rico’s Catholics assess Fiona’s blow to church buildings
By Kathryn Post — September 22, 2022
(RNS) — Just as Catholics made progress on repairing a few dozen of the 1,000 Catholic buildings damaged by Maria, Hurricane Fiona swept in.
After Dorian, Baptist leader and Bahamas native sees devastation, resilience
By Adelle M. Banks — September 13, 2019
(RNS) — The Progressive National Baptist president said of some churches after the hurricane: 'Even the ones that were serving as shelters, most of them have been compromised.'
Catholic groups ease suffering after the hurricanes on US Virgin Islands
By Joe Boland — December 22, 2017
ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands (RNS) — The local bishop says virtually 'every church and every school' in his diocese was affected.
Chainsaw-wielding nun just ‘wanted to help out’ after Hurricane Irma
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 13, 2017
(RNS) — Sister Margaret Ann said the chainsaws were sitting in a school closet, and, after Hurricane Irma left a path of destruction through the city, 'they didn't belong there. They needed to be used.'
Florida now understands the Noah story
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 11, 2017
(RNS) — Ever since Irma announced that she was going to pay Florida a visit, I’ve been experiencing what it must have been like to be on the ark — minus the animals, of course, writes Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin. (COMMENTARY)
Faith groups provide the bulk of disaster recovery, in coordination with FEMA
By Paul Singer — September 11, 2017
(USA Today) — If you donate bottles of water, diapers, clothing or any other materials to hurricane victims in Texas or Florida, your donation will likely pass through the hands of the Seventh-day Adventists before it gets to a storm victim.
Distributing aid in Haiti is a dangerous proposition
By Kit Doyle — October 26, 2016
JEREMIE, Haiti (RNS) Religion reporting doesn't usually put a journalist in harm's way. But that wasn't the case when an RNS photojournalist accompanied a relief convoy distributing aid in Haiti to victims of Hurricane Matthew.
Justice, Poverty, and Sandy
By Omid Safi — November 2, 2012
The immediate response to crisis, any crisis, has to be immediate, un-mediated compassion. Yet we are getting to the point where we have to ask some difficult moral questions from our own selves in light of Sandy.
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