Earthquake leaves Haitian Catholics mourning losses
Submitted on January 21, 2010
WASHINGTON -- As they help Haitians rebuild destroyed homes and mourn lost relatives, Catholic Church workers in Haiti are grieving for members of their own "families" killed or severely injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake Jan. 12.
Although Archbishop Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince was the best-known Haitian Catholic leader killed in the quake, the losses also included some of the oldest and youngest members of the Church community.
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