Yesterday I had a problem with my e-mail, and it did not go out, so I am resending it today in a separate message.
11 November 1998
The recovery continues. Yesterday the post office opened in San Pedro Sula for the first time in two weeks. Tomorrow the airport terminal will open again for the first time in almost two weeks. For the past several days TACA has been flying small planes in and out of here taking passengers to connect with international flights in La Ceiba and Tegucigalpa. As of tomorrow, the jets will once again be landing and taking off from San Pedro Sula.
10 November 1998
"You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers." II Corinthians 1:11
10 November 1998
It's only from the hopeful power that scriptures gives us that we are able to continue. Micah's words in chapter 7 verse 8, "when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me" are words that remind us that we must continue and that there is hope.
09 November 1998
How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street." Lamentations 4:1
08 November 1998
We now have a page set up on the web so that people can use either MasterCard or Visa to make a contribution to the Diocese of Honduras to be used for relief.
06 November 1998
Bishop Leo Frade of Honduras began one of his dozens of missives to friends and supporters, governments and church relief offices with those words the first week of November. As the winds and rain of Hurricane Mitch tore at his country, Frade's e-mail notes and occasional cell phone calls became increasingly insistent, increasingly ominous as he sought support to help the terrified. He wrote
06 November 1998
We, the members of the Ecumenical Committee, representing about 20 Catholic communities and Protestant denominations from the US, Canada, and Europe, write this letter in the hope of sharing not only information about what is taking place in Nicaragua following the natural disaster caused by Hurricane Mitch but also our concerns about how governments, churches, non-governmental organizations, and relief agencies respond to this crisis.
05 November 1998
On Tuesday November 3, the Nicaraguan government released the seven cargo containers that had been impounded for 3-4 months.
04 November 1998
The bishops and spouses of Lambeth Conference took a day off from business, Tuesday, to have lunch at Lambeth Palace, tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and a boat ride down the Thames River past the Tower of London and the Millennium Dome.
29 July 1998