Sep 262008
On May 12, 2008, China was wrecked by a deadly 8.0 magnitude earthquake which struck the province of Sichuan leaving 5 million homeless and 15 million people displaced. The death toll reached 69,226 according to the latest official records. Nearly 9,000 children died when their schools collapsed in the earthquake while more than 5,000 children were orphaned. There were 18,627 people reported missing and 374,643 locals were badly injured.
The earthquake’s epicenter at Wenchuan made the Read more [...]
Sep 262008
Distributing the Catholic Studium Biblicum Version of the Bible in the earthquake affected Sichuan Xichang Diocese.
Photo by: Catholic Patriotic Association
Father Lee from the Chengdu Catholic Diocese was so filled with gratitude to UBS donors for the bibles distributed in the earthquake affected areas that he wrote:
“I would like to thank donors for delivering 4000 bibles to our diocese. Out of its 100,000 members in the diocese, nearly sixty thousand of our members’ family suffered Read more [...]
