{"id":20788,"date":"2016-10-13T06:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T06:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=18076"},"modified":"2016-10-13T06:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T06:27:05","slug":"haiti-pope-offers-prayer-and-support-for-hurricane-victims-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/10\/13\/haiti-pope-offers-prayer-and-support-for-hurricane-victims-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"HAITI &#8211; Pope offers prayer and support for hurricane victims &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>HAITI<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Pope offers prayer<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong>\u00a0support for hurricane <\/strong><strong>victims<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his \u201cdeep sympathy in these painful circumstances\u201d and assuring his prayer and spiritual closeness to all those affected by hurricane Matthew, particularly in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning of the devastation wrought by hurricane Matthew, which has caused numerous victims and considerable damage, His Holiness Pope Francis wishes to express his sorrow and assures his prayer for all those who have lost a loved one,\u201d the telegram read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe conveys to them his sincerest condolences and assures them of his deep sympathy in these painful circumstances. He entrusts the departed to the mercy of God, that He welcome them in His light. He assures them of his spiritual closeness and his affection for the injured, and for all those who have lost their homes and possessions in the disaster. Welcoming and encouraging solidarity in this new hardship the country must face, the Holy Father entrusts all Haitians to the maternal protection of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and imparts to them, as a sign of consolation and hope, a special apostolic blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The telegram was signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and addressed to Cardinal Chibly Langlois, president of the Haitian Bishops Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Matthew was the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade with winds reaching 120mph. It devastated Haiti, which is still trying to recover from the catastrophic earthquake that destroyed much of the country in 2010. The death toll in Haiti is over 1000 with dozens also reported killed in nearby Caribbean islands and southern US. Several thousand people were left homeless as villages were wiped out by the category three storm.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAITI &#8211;\u00a0Pope offers prayer and \u00a0support for hurricane victims &nbsp; Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his \u201cdeep sympathy in these painful circumstances\u201d and assuring his prayer and spiritual closeness to all those affected by hurricane Matthew, particularly in Haiti. \u201cLearning of the devastation wrought by hurricane Matthew, which has caused numerous victims and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HAITI - Pope offers prayer and support for hurricane victims - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/10\/13\/haiti-pope-offers-prayer-and-support-for-hurricane-victims-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HAITI - Pope offers prayer and support for hurricane victims - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HAITI &#8211;\u00a0Pope offers prayer and \u00a0support for hurricane victims &nbsp; 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