super-typhoon Haiyan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 03 Mar 2014 01:32:13 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg super-typhoon Haiyan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Buddhist charity helps rebuilds typhoon-hit church https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/03/04/buddhist-charity-helps-rebuilds-typhoon-hit-church/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:06:51 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=55043 The world's largest Buddhist charity is helping rebuild a Catholic Church in the Philippines that was badly damaged in Super-typhoon Haiyan last year. The Tzu Chi Foundation is donating US$670,000 for the reconstruction of the Santo Nino parish church in Tacloban City. This show of generosity has been warmly welcomed by the Church. As many Read more

Buddhist charity helps rebuilds typhoon-hit church... Read more]]> The world's largest Buddhist charity is helping rebuild a Catholic Church in the Philippines that was badly damaged in Super-typhoon Haiyan last year.

The Tzu Chi Foundation is donating US$670,000 for the reconstruction of the Santo Nino parish church in Tacloban City.

This show of generosity has been warmly welcomed by the Church.

As many as 90 percent of Catholic churches in the central Philippine provinces of Samar and Leyte were destroyed by the super typhoon last November that killed some 8000 people and left about four million homeless.

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