From: CRC [crc@crc-canada.org]
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:44 PM
To: CRC
Subject: Message from the Haitian Religious Conference

Greetings,

Attached please find a message from the Haitian Religious Conference concerning the communities that were victim to the earthquake.

Also, please note that the Brothers of the Good Shepherd suffered no loss of life at their mission, "The Sheepfold of the Good Shepherd" in Port-au-Prince. The school, residence, bakery, administration building, seminary/novitiate and farm are all destroyed. The dormitory and main house are uninhabitable until government inspection. Brother Luc, upwards of 100 orphans, 8 novices, and 14 seminarians now live in the school playground and under the stars. They wait patiently for the arrival of emergency tents and supplies.

Carolyn Lavergne
Adjointe administrative / Administrative Assistant Conférence religieuse canadienne
Canadian Religious Conference
1431 Fullum (casier 6)
Montréal QC H2K 3M3

crc@crc-canada.org
www.crc-canada.org
Tél.: 514-259-0856 Fax: 514-259-0857

CONFÉRENCE HAÏTIENNE DES RELIGIEUX
Rue M, # 13 (Turgeau), Port-au-Prince, Haïti
Tél.: 245-3613 / Fax: 245-5806 - E-mail: chr05_2009@yahoo.fr

January 19, 2010

Communities Victims of the Earthquake
January 12, 2010

As you know, the earthquake, at 7.3 on the Richter scale, destroyed a vast portion of our country, particularly the capital, Port au Prince. According to your means, we solicit all types of help possible. We are also in need of experts to verify the safety of houses and remove debris.

We do not have the number of victims from all of the congregations; the following is what we have so far:

The archbishopric and the cathedral collapsed, the archbishop, the general vicar, and chancellor are victims.

The building that houses the Haitian Religious Conference (CHR) is completely destroyed. 

Religious Communities:

 1.  Filles de la Charité de St Vincent de Paul (house destroyed) 1 victim.

 2.  Sisters of Wisdom (houses and school destroyed 6 sisters dead and 1 employee: Sisters Christine, Marie Claude, Marie Emmanuelle, Marie Carmelle François, Marie Flore, Marguerite du Calvaire. 5 houses destroyed.

 3.  Daughters of Mary (Schools, houses destroyed - 13 sisters at the Motherhouse: Bernadette Hilaire, sup. prov., Albert, Bruna Boricard, Leonne Revly, Rosiette Léandre, Marie Josée Cadet, Félicie, René Kebreau, Rose Marlene William, Marlene Bien Aime, Josephat, Ligori, Marie d'Assise, Madeleine Joseph, Thérèse) and 3 employees are dead.

 4.  Filles de Marie Auxiliatrice (House and school destroyed).

 5.  Filles de Marie Reine Immaculée (House and school destroyed) 2 sisters: Sr Tony Adolphe, Juline Alabre) 8 young girls from the Center are dead.

 6.  Franciscan (Minor Brothers) House destroyed. Residence de St-Alexandre, at a distance of about 12 minutes from the National Palace and Cathedral, are destroyed

 7.  Brothers of the Sacred Heart (House and school destroyed).

 8.  Brothers of Christian Instruction (Victims: 2 dead; 2 wounded)
     House destroyed: Residence - 3 schools: Jean Marie Guilloux School: 6 dead
        Inst. St Louis de Delmas, no deaths
        Inst. St Louis, Rue du Centre: some 40 dead and as many students wounded
        Formation house is cracked
        Jacmel Residence destroyed
        Residence and school at Valley are cracked

 9.  Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Fr. Edmond Pascal, dead) Philosophy building destroyed.

10.  Montfortains (11 victims) (House and school and Church destroyed).

11.  Oblats de Marie Immaculée (House destroyed).

12.  Little Sisters of Ste Thérèse: Victims; 4 Sisters - 7 professors - Students 60 dead and 40 wounded - 2 Houses and 5 schools destroyed.

13.  Holy Cross Fathers (House destroyed - 1 victim: Guillaume Emmanuel) 1 scholastic missing. He was following a course at the University Quiqueya. All the building of the main pavilion of this University crumbled.
       (2) The Provincial Administration no longer exists. This house was recently acquired and restored by Father Arty and his team, did not resist the earthquake.
       (3) Most of the walls have crumbled
       (4) The High School section of the College Basile Moreau no longer exists; the primary school section is severely cracked and probably inhabitable; the residence for the religious is undamaged but the main floor has many cracked walls. The preschool do not have a local;
       (5) The main wall of the scolasticate gave way; many smaller houses are cracked.
       (6) The building that houses FAME PEREO is no longer operational.

14.  Little Brothers of Ste Thérèse (Victims: 2 brothers, 4 Schools destroyed).

15. Redemptorist Fathers - Houses, Churches, destroyed, St Gerard School crumbled, with 200 children dead and 1 priest wounded.

16.  Salesiens (House and School destroyed - Victims: 1 coadjutor and 2 scholastics).

17.  Sisters of Charity of St Louis: Port-au-Prince Provincial House severly cracked, the College as well - Cotes de Fer: School and sisters residence are beyond use.

18.  Sisters of St Francis of Assise (Residence craked and college collapsed). Baussan St are very damaged. At Maniche the house has extensive damage, Arniquet, St Jean in the South, the sisters residence the day school, Grand Goâve, and Ste Claire d'Assise all have severe cracks

19.  Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (Houses and school destroyed)

20.  Sisters of Ste Anne (House and school destroyed) (1 death: Sr Odile - 1 wounded)

21.  Dominican Sisters of the Presentation (House destroyed)

22.  Sisters of Christ Marie Alphonse (Orphanage, school destroyed)

23.  Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception (house and school destroyed)

24.  Holy Spirit Fathers (1 victim; School and house destroyed)

25.  Sisters of Charity of St Hyacinthe: Novitiate, Residence, - 4 schools and houses destroyed in Port-au-Prince, Frères. Jérémie: Residence and school destroyed.

26.  Religious Jesus and Mary (house destroyed)

27.  Society of the Sacred Heart (house destroyed)

28.  Marianistes (House destroyed)

29.  Missionaries of Scheut (House destroyed)

30.  Missionary Brothers of St Alphonse de Liguori (House damaged)

31.  Missionaries of the Immaculate heart of Mary (House destroyed)

32.  Sisters of Providence. The novitiate and postulate are cracked, plus the house at 1st Cité Wilson No 5, parish of the Sacred Heart, and Ruelle Rivière 3e, No 18.  Plus a house on the novitiate property is completely destroyed.

Courage and remain strong. Let us ask for the blessing and mercy of Our Lord.
Courage et Soyons forts. Demandons la grâce et la miséricorde au Seigneur. 

United in prayer.

For the office of the Director of CHR
Sr.Maryse, SFA