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The house of a Missionary Sister serving in Peru by the name of Sr. Esmie.
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Her mother and sister were victims who lost their lives in Dutch Bar Baticaloa.
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A family in Dutch Bar Baticaloa relating their story to Fr Tony Martyn
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The remains of their house in Dutch Bar (Baticaloa Diocese) where 148 lives were lost.
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The vast destruction of Tsunami as it has unleashed itself on a house in Dutch Bar of the Batticaloa Diocese.
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No stone is left on top of another………
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The remains of what was a chapel in Kalmunai belonging to the Brothers of St. Joseph.
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The debris and destruction left behind ….The building adjacent to the chapel
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Rev. Bro. Shanthi with 5 boys of the Boys’ Home in Kalmunai, together with the National Director PMS and the Diocesan Directors.
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The temporary make shift place for the boys. Their house is to be relocated and reconstructed
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all furniture, schools books beds and the farm, which helped to sustain them, were totally destroyed.
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Rev. Bro Daya with Fr. Madurangan and Fr. Tony Martyn National Director P.M.S looking into their yard where the farm once stood.
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Mullaitivu-Jaffna Dioceses
The Church of St. Peter’s.
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Nearly 1500 people were saved when the Parish Priest Fr. James Paththinathar requested them to go to a nearby shrine of St. Joseph's
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on the Feast of Holy Family, which meant a walk of almost 2 km away on that fateful day the 26 of December 2004. The community gathered there and as
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the distribution of Holy Communion was over the priest detected a huge boat coming along the road and with it a wall of water, he asked the people to
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run towards the land and they all did so. That entire community was saved except for those who were not at church. The people are ever grateful to him
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for saving their lives. It truly was God at work in and through frail human beings.
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Remains of houses that once was the home to many families in Mulathivu in Jaffna.
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Houses destroyed in the vicinity of the church
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Children in the Kallaru parish of St. John de Britto .The School was affected. Their smiling faces reveal the childlike simplicity.
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In the background are the Diocesan Directors with the National Director
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The children with a Holy Childhood animator who is busy with sharing some sweets in the Kalmunai camp
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Typical camps in which people are now residing.
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We do hope an alternative shelter will speedily be built to save them from the sweltering heat
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and the elements, in Kalmunai in the Batticaloa District
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A van pulled out from the lagoon near the Kallady Bridge in the Batticaloa District.
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All the debris from the area are collected and dumped in a nearby playing field in Kalmunai in the Batticaloa Diocese.
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