Pray for Haiti
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For its part, the US church's relief arm -- Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, now chaired by the archbishop of New York -- has devoted its website to collecting donations to fund its efforts, which've already begun with the deployment of $5 million worth of aid.
While CRS' John Rivera reported earlier that the agency's staff were already on-ground in the Haitian capital and their headquarters survived, at least one close-by building had collapsed.
The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, some 80 per cent of Haiti's ten million residents are Catholic.
PHOTO: Reuters
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