A close friend of the Diocese of Brooklyn is the latest victim of the crisis in Haiti.
Bishop Pierre-Andre Dumas of the diocese of “an-say-vo meerah-gwahn” in Haiti was seriously injured in an explosion last Sunday.
Bishop Dumas, who has visited Brooklyn several times, was visiting the capital of Port-Au-Prince at the time of the blast.
He’s being airlifted Thursday to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital to undergo treatment for severe burns.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami says they’ll be receiving Bishop Dumas there.
Police are still investigating the cause of the blast, saying it may have been a gas explosion, but Archbishop Wenski said he’s spoken to a few priests in Haiti who are suspicious, and believe it may have been a targeted attack.
Bishop Dumas is in stable condition.
He will stay in Florida for the remainder of his treatment, after which Bishop Wenski believes he’ll return to Haiti because quote “the church needs him.”
Bishop Dumas has been outspoken about the violence and lawlessness happening in the Caribbean country.
The National Correspondent for The Tablet and Crux, John Lavenburg, joins Currents News to talk more about it.
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