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BOHOL ... UN AN APRÈS !

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Un an après le puissant tremblement de terre qui a frappé l’île de Bohol dans les Visayas, les reconstructions de certaines églises et basiliques, datant de la période coloniale espagnole, vont pouvoir commencer.  Si certaines vont être restaurées, d’autres devront être reconstruites. Malheureusement, certains monuments réduits à l’état de poussières de corail, sont a tout jamais perdus. C’est le cas de l’église de Maribojoc, de laquelle ne subsiste que la statue du ‘’Christ Roi’’. “I can accept the idea that maybe a few of these churches might just be left as ruins, never to be rebuilt,”Bishop Leonardo Medroso, head of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, said. “But others are going to be restored.” It has been almost a year since the so-called Great Eastern Bohol Earthquake damaged many churches in Medroso’s diocese and already he is overseeing the construction of alternative churches beside the ruins of what were once considered jewels of Spanish missionary architecture i