From ENS-
The Episcopal Church is preparing to launch a fund-raising effort to help "rebuild the soul" of Haiti, according to a Jan. 3 release from the Episcopal Church Foundation.
The focus of what the release calls the "initial phase of rebuilding" will be the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Holy Trinity Cathedral complex in Port-au-Prince. Nearly all the diocese's church buildings were effectively leveled by the Jan. 12, 2010 magnitude-7 earthquake, the release said.
The cathedral complex once contained Holy Trinity Music School, Holy Trinity Professional School, primary and secondary schools, and a convent as well as the church with its world-renowned murals depicting biblical stories in Haitian motifs, which were crafted by some of the best-known Haitian painters of the 20th century.
"The cathedral was a beacon in a land where strength of faith is inversely proportional to economic development," the foundation's release said.
The Diocese of Haiti is numerically the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church and prior to the earthquake ran a network of 254 schools that taught more than 80,000 Haitians from preschool to university level. Other institutions included a school for handicapped children, a trade school, a music school, a two-year business school, a nursing school that granted the first baccalaureate degrees in the country in January 2009, a seminary and a university. A renowned philharmonic orchestra and children's choir were based at the cathedral and both are still performing. The diocese also provides ran medical clinics, development projects and micro-financing efforts.
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http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_126382_ENG_HTM.htm
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