Planned Parenthood Solicits Funds to Offer Chemical abortion for Hurricane Victims
HOUSTON, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Red Cross has volunteer teams with food, water, emergency shelters and medicine and is working around the clock to help the people struck by Hurricane Katrina. The Catholic Charities is there too, as is the National Guard, the Salvation Army and nearly every other humanitarian assistance organization imaginable, bringing every sort of assistance to the people left homeless and dazed by Katrina’s incredible fury. Thousands of individuals, organizations and commercial companies are donating time, material resources and cash in an international effort to help as quickly as possible. Story


New Orleans City Council President: "Maybe God's Going To Cleanse Us"
NEW ORLEANS, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The popular adage, "there are no atheists in the trenches" sums up the truth that in times of disaster it is natural for people to turn to God, for help and also for an explanation. The devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina has brought that reality home to the United States, particularly in the affected regions. story


Churches rally to aid refugees Many BR sites providing services
By WILLIAM TAYLOR
Advocate staff writer
Roman Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes, himself a New Orleans refugee with maybe two changes of clothes, can't go home either, but he could minister Wednesday to fellow victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Hughes and Bishop Robert W. Muench of Baton Rouge went to pray with those in the makeshift shelters. story