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November 15, 2014

A year after Typhoon Haiya, Filipinos look forward to Pope Francis' visit

Doves fly over Filipinos lighting candles as they offer prayers and flowers at a mass gravesite in Tacloban, Philippines, Nov. 8. One year after one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded crashed across the central Philippines, church leade rs in some of the worst-hit parts looked to Pope Francis' brief January visit to Leyte Island with hope, and slight trepidation.

PALO, Philippines - One year after one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded crashed across the central Philippines, Church leaders in some of the worst-hit parts looked to Pope Francis' brief January visit to Leyte Island with hope, and slight trepidation.

Published in International