January 2010
The League's Monthly E-Newsletter
“Welcome, friend”
On behalf of the national chairperson of communications, we would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming show of support. This free E-Newsletter complements The Canadian League and is a grassroots publication that can thrive with support from you. Keep the material coming!
“Welcome, friend”
On behalf of the national chairperson of communications, we would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming show of support. This free E-Newsletter complements The Canadian League and is a grassroots publication that can thrive with support from you. Keep the material coming!
Earthquake in Haiti
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12th leaving Port-au-Prince, the capital city in ruins. Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN Wednesday the death toll from the earthquake that rocked his country could be "well over 100,000."
To learn more about the crisis and the ongoing international response, click on the following links
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/13/f-haiti-earthquake.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2010/haiti_earthquake/default.stm
On January 14th, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Pierre Morissette, issued an “Appeal to the Pastors and Faithful of the Catholic Church in Canada” in which he notes that one third of Haiti’s population, some three million people are in dire need of disaster relief. Bishop Morissette reported that at the end of the General Audience on January 14th, “Pope Benedict XVI called for international generosity and solidarity toward our Haitian brothers and sisters who are suffering and in need, and gave his assurances that the Catholic Church will provide immediate and urgent assistance.”
To read the appeal in its entirety, click on the following link: http://www.cccb.ca/site/content/view/2749/1152/
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has organized an emergency appeal and is working with Caritas Haiti that runs 200 established medical clinics in the country. All donations will be sent to partners on site in Haiti.
Donations to Development and Peace for the Haiti crisis can be made by phone
(1 888 664-3387), on their Web site or by sending a cheque marked Haiti Emergency to the following address:
Development and Peace
1425 René-Lévesque Blvd. W, 3rd Floor
Montreal QC H3G 1T7
To learn more, click on the following link http://www.devp.org/devpme/eng/pressroom/2010/comm2010-01-13-eng.html
League members are also called to offer prayer support and community support to those among us in Canadian communities with loved ones in Haiti.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12th leaving Port-au-Prince, the capital city in ruins. Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN Wednesday the death toll from the earthquake that rocked his country could be "well over 100,000."
To learn more about the crisis and the ongoing international response, click on the following links
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/13/f-haiti-earthquake.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2010/haiti_earthquake/default.stm
On January 14th, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Pierre Morissette, issued an “Appeal to the Pastors and Faithful of the Catholic Church in Canada” in which he notes that one third of Haiti’s population, some three million people are in dire need of disaster relief. Bishop Morissette reported that at the end of the General Audience on January 14th, “Pope Benedict XVI called for international generosity and solidarity toward our Haitian brothers and sisters who are suffering and in need, and gave his assurances that the Catholic Church will provide immediate and urgent assistance.”
To read the appeal in its entirety, click on the following link: http://www.cccb.ca/site/content/view/2749/1152/
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has organized an emergency appeal and is working with Caritas Haiti that runs 200 established medical clinics in the country. All donations will be sent to partners on site in Haiti.
Donations to Development and Peace for the Haiti crisis can be made by phone
(1 888 664-3387), on their Web site or by sending a cheque marked Haiti Emergency to the following address:
Development and Peace
1425 René-Lévesque Blvd. W, 3rd Floor
Montreal QC H3G 1T7
To learn more, click on the following link http://www.devp.org/devpme/eng/pressroom/2010/comm2010-01-13-eng.html
League members are also called to offer prayer support and community support to those among us in Canadian communities with loved ones in Haiti.