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TAGBILARAN CITY, Philippines—The Filipino apostolic nuncio to Haiti has called relatives in Bohol to inform them he was safe after an earthquake devastated that country on Wednesday.
In an interview with a local radio station here, Magdalena Auza, mother of Archbishop Bernardito Auza, said her family was first informed of the condition of the Papal Nuncio in Haiti Wednesday night when Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, the Vatican envoy to the Philippines, called them personally.
The 51-year-old Boholano prelate representing the Vatican in Haiti personally got in touch with relatives Thursday morning.
In an interview with Fides, Vatican's online news service, Archbishop Auza said that the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, was devastated.
"The cathedral, the archbishop's office, all of the big churches, all of the seminaries have been reduced to rubble," the archbishop said.
Auza reported that all of the ministry buildings except one were torn down, as were the Presidential Palace and the schools.
"The parliament with the senators, the schools with the children, the supermarkets were reduced to nothing," the nuncio told Fides.
He said that everyone was asking for help as he projected a problem with water and food.
"So many things were broken, including the tabernacle, but we are more fortunate than others. Many relatives of the personnel are dead, their houses destroyed. We cannot go inside and stay there for very long because the ground continues to shake, so we're camping out in the yard," the archbishop said.
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