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Caritas Philippines appeals for aid for earthquake victims
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MANILA (UCAN): Caritas Philipines launched a solidarity appeal to help the earthquake-hit northern province of Batanes. |
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Heritage churches closed following Philippine earthquake
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MANILA (UCAN): Several old churches in the province of Pampanga have been closed after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook the island of Luzon, the Philippines, on April 22. |
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Quake-hit Sulawesi needs more help
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JAKARTA (UCAN): People affected by the deadly magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami that struck Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province on September 28, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing more than 70,000 more, are still in desperate need of relief supplies. |
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Helping hands extended to Sulawesi after quake
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JAKARTA (CNS/SE): Catholic aid agencies were among those working to assess the needs and get relief to the island of Sulawesi after an earthquake and tsunami left more than 1,400 people dead. |
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Quake aid workers warned against proselytising
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JAKARTA (UCAN): Indonesia’s religious affairs minister, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, warned volunteers from religious-based organisations offering aid to survivors of deadly earthquakes that recently struck the tourist island of Lombok, against proselytising. The region was hit by three powerful quakes on July 29, August 5, and August 19, killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands more. |
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Third powerful quake hits Lombok
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Jakarta (UCAN): At least 10 people were killed by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on August 19, less than a month after two earlier quakes killed hundreds (Sunday Examiner, August 12). |
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Lombok hit by another powerful earthquake
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JAKARTA (UCAN/CNS): At least 105 people were confirmed dead as at the time of going to press, after a magnitude seven earthquake struck Indonesia’s Lombok Island on August 5 a week after it was struck a magnitude 6.4 quake that killed more than a dozen people (Sunday Examiner, August 5). |
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Deadly quake shakes Indonesian island
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JAKARTA (SE): Catholic groups have started to collect aid for thousands of people affected by the deadly 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on July 29. |
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Nepal resilient a year after earthquake
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Kathmandu (SE): A delegation from Caritas Internationalis visited Nepal at the end of April to take part in a symposium in Kathmandu and to mark the anniversary of the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck on 25 April 2015, leaving millions homeless, bringing aid and engendering a spirit of solidarity. |
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Is this the big one?
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KUMAMOTO (SE): “Is this the big one?” a long time resident of Kumamoto City on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan said he thought to himself as his home shook violently at 1.25am on April 14. He said that although it is not something at the front of his consciousness, the occasional reminder that Japan is an earthquake-prone country leaves the thought of the big earthquake lurking somewhere at the back of his mind and images of Kobe from the 1990s and Fukushima from 2011 are always there. |
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