Archbishop Joseph Serge-Miot was reported dead after the Tuesday earthquake that measured 7.0 on the Richter scale.
Father Andre Siohan, a missionary of the French St. Jacques Society, e-mailed the Missionary International Service News Agency a few hours after the quake, which was centered less than 10 miles from Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital.
“Nou atè nèt,” the priest wrote, which means in Creole, “We are on our knees.”
“I went to the city center this morning to visit the other religious communities,” he said. “The area is completely devastated and there are thousands of victims.”
Ben Larson, a Wartburg Seminary student in Haiti for their January term, was killed. He is the son of the first ELCA female bishop, April Larson.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/81504092.html
Thanks, Iowa lay (#1).
Doubtless there are many such stories that will be coming to light in the days to come.
I note that the article announces that along with the RC archbishop being dead, the Vicar General is also missing and may be dead too, taking out the two top Catholic leaders in the country. Lutheran, Catholic, whatever, these kind of terrible disasters are ecumencial in their impact. EArthquakes don’t respect denominational distinctions.
David Handy+