People move through flooded streets in Havana after the passage of Hurricane Irma, in Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In Irma’s U.S. death toll, which Americans count?

by Tim Padgett September 15, 2017

Caribbean islands rarely get the Anderson Cooper treatment on cable news.

Mobile homes and farmworker housing in Immokalee, Fla., are seen flooded on Sept. 12 after Hurricane Irma swept up through Florida, leaving many in Southwest Florida without housing. The hurricane also severely impacted the region's infrastructure, including electricity, gasoline, internet and mobile telephone services. (CNS photo/Tom Tracy)

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Florida diocesan official says normal life at standstill after Irma

by Tom Tracy - Catholic News Service September 14, 2017

Catholic organizations tackle the challenges of recovery in Florida.

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Florida nun grabs chain saw to help with Irma recovery

by Associated Press September 13, 2017

A Florida Nun helps with the Hurricane recovery efforts her own way.

Small family farmers on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia improved their carrot crop yields and are moving towards organic farming thanks to support from Development and Peace. Photo credit: Kelly Di Domenico/Development and Peace-Caritas Canada

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Canadian Catholic bishops celebrate 50 years of Development and Peace agency

by Dean Dettloff September 13, 2017

Canada’s Development and Peace has launched impressive public education projects and worked on advocacy campaigns and thousands of economic and community development projects on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Residents look at a collapsed house on Sept. 12 after Hurricane Irma passed the area in Vilano Beach, Florida. (CNS photo/Chris Wattie, Reuters)

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Bishops pray for ‘safety, care’ of all hit hard by two massive hurricanes

by Catholic News Service September 13, 2017

U.S. Catholic bishops react to recent hurricanes and urge Catholics to respond generously.

Exhausted Rohingya refugees rest on the shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, after crossing by boat through the Bay of Bengal on Sept. 10. (CNS photo/Danish Siddiqui, Reuters)

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Aid workers see humanitarian crisis as Rohingya flee to Bangladesh

by Catholic News Service September 12, 2017

Members of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya group face violence even as they flee the country as the humanitarian situation turns desperate.

A man signals to police officers from a flooded house after Hurricane Irma passed through Daytona Beach, Fla. (CNS photo/Daytona Beach Police Department handout via Reuters)

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In Florida shelter, exhausted people wait out Hurricane Irma

by Mickey Conlon - Catholic News Service September 11, 2017

Strangers from around the country find themselves facing Hurricane Irma together in a High School turned shelter.

A man walks next to an earthquake-damaged building in Juchitan, Mexico, on Sept. 9. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

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Church leaders pray for victims of Mexican earthquake

by David Agren - Catholic News Service September 11, 2017

Church leaders react to the massive 8.1 magnitude earthquake which struck off of the Mexican coast, leaving death and destruction in Guatemala and southern Mexico.