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Devastation In Haiti Far Worse than Imagined, Says ELCA Leader

From <NEWS@ELCA.ORG>
Date Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:59:07 -0500

Title: Devastation In Haiti Far Worse than Imagined, Says ELCA Leader
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>August 24, 2010  

Devastation In Haiti Far Worse than Imagined, Says ELCA Leader
10-228-MRC

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Pictures of the devastation are distressing, but
seeing earthquake-ravaged Haiti in person is far worse than what the 
Rev.
Rafael Malpica Padilla imagined. "It is overwhelming," said Malpica
Padilla, executive director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America's (ELCA) Global Mission.

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