Home › T19 Categories › * Culture-Watch › (CNS) As Japan disaster unfolds, world's Catholics offer prayers, help

(CNS) As Japan disaster unfolds, world's Catholics offer prayers, help

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Kendall Harmon

The Diocese of Sendai includes the areas hardest-hit in the disaster, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News.

Father Peter Shiro Komatsu, diocesan chancellor, said March 14 that Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga of Sendai was unharmed but had not received complete reports on the damage because telecommunications remained disrupted.

The priest said diocesan officials did not know about what had happened to several churches along the coast. He said one church in Fukushima was totally damaged and eight churches in Sendai were either unaffected or only slightly damaged.

Read it all.

Posted in * Culture-Watch, * International News & Commentary, * Religion News & Commentary, Asia, Japan, Other Churches, Religion & Culture, Roman Catholic