Buddhist charity helps rebuilds typhoon-hit church

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

The world’s largest Buddhist charity is helping rebuild a Catholic Church in the Philippines that was badly damaged in Super-typhoon Haiyan last year.

The Tzu Chi Foundation is donating US$670,000 for the reconstruction of the Santo Nino parish church in Tacloban City.

This show of generosity has been warmly welcomed by the Church.

As many as 90 percent of Catholic churches in the central Philippine provinces of Samar and Leyte were destroyed by the super typhoon last November that killed some 8000 people and left about four million homeless.

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