AMERICA/HAITI - Situation of religious communities after the earthquake

[Agenzia_Fides]

Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Haitian Conference of Religious has drafted a preliminary report, although still incomplete, on the situation of religious communities following the earthquake. A copy of the report was sent to Agenzia Fides. The following is the information we have been provided:

**Clerics of Saint Viator: **
Villa Manresa and the house at Grand Goave destroyed;

Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul:
houses are severely damaged, one nun killed (Sister Brigitte Pierre);

Daughters of Wisdom:
houses and schools destroyed, 6 sisters and one employee killed;

Daughters of Mary:
schools and houses destroyed, 13 nuns, including the Provincial Superior, and 3 employees killed;

Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians:
house and school destroyed;

Daughters of Mary Immaculate Queen:
house and school destroyed, 2 sisters and 8 girls killed;

Friars Minor:
destroyed house;

Brothers of the Sacred Heart:
house and school destroyed;

Christian Brothers:
provincial house and 3 schools destroyed, 2 religious brothers/priests dead;

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart:
house of philosophical studies destroyed;

Montfortians:
house, school, and churches destroyed, 11 victims;

Oblates of Mary Immaculate:
house destroyed;

Little Sisters of St. Teresa:
5 houses and 2 schools destroyed; 4 sisters, 7 teachers, and 60 students dead;

Holy Cross Fathers: house destroyed, 1 dead;

Little Brothers of St. Teresa:
5 houses destroyed, 2 religious dead;

Salesians:
house and school destroyed, 3 victims;

Sisters of Charity of St. Louis:
damage to houses;

Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi:
damage to housing, school destroyed;

Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny:
house and school destroyed;

Sisters of St. Anne:
house and school destroyed, 1 Sister dead;

Dominicans of the Presentation:
house destroyed;

Sisters of Christ Marie Alphonse:
an orphanage and school destroyed;

Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception:
house and school destroyed;

Spiritan Fathers:
house and school destroyed, 1 dead;

Sisters of Charity of St. Hyacinthe:
house, novitiate, and schools destroyed;

Religious Sisters of Jesus and Mary: house destroyed;

Society of the Sacred Heart:
house destroyed;

Marianists:
house destroyed;

Scheut Missionaries:
house destroyed;

Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
house destroyed.

(SL) (Agenzia Fides 1/02/2010)

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[CNA_News]

Vatican City, Feb 2, 2010 / 01:05 pm (CNA).- Twenty days after Haiti was ravaged by the 7.0 earthquake, the Vatican has released its intial assesment of the number of male and female religious who died in the cataclysmic event. The report also lists buildings that were destroyed or damage in the disaster.

According to Fides, the news agency of the Vatican’s Congregation for Evangelization, the list of dead religious shows that the quake inflicted “irreparable damage” on the Catholic Church in Haiti, without accounting for the extensive material destruction of the Church’s infrastructure.

The preliminary report shows that the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul have suffered damage to their community houses and the loss of one religious sister. The Daughters of Wisdom suffered the complete destruction of their house and school, and the death of six sisters. The Daughters of Mary were hit extremely hard, with 13 religious losing their lives to the violent tremor.

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