AsiaNews; Filipinos affected by Typhoon Haiyan are involved in the hard task of rebuilding thanks to the material and moral support of their compatriots, including the poor and others affected by past natural disasters.
Interviewed by AsiaNews, Jason Elias Tolentino, communications chief for Caritas Philippines (National Secretariat for Social Action-Justice and Peace, NASSA), said that “the tragedy did not destroy people’s hope even though they witnessed helplessly, over a short period of time, members of their families die and their homes wiped out.”
For Tolentino, without people’s charity and faith, reconstruction would not be possible. An example of this occurred last Sunday when thousands of people attended the ordination Mass of three young priests at Tacloban cathedral, which lies in ruin. Read more here.
