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- Aberfan, Wales
[PWRF Grant to South Wales]
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official5362
- Date
- 1966 November 1
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Record Type
- Press Release
- Text
- The Anglican Church of Canada through its Primate's World Relief Fund has sent $2,500 to alleviate distress and for restoration work in Aberfan, South Wales, arising from the coal-slag avalanche which took the lives of some 150 persons, mostly children.
- In making the money available to Rt. Rev. W.G.H. Simon, Bishop of Llandaff, Canon Maurice Wilkinson, secretary of the relief fund, cabled that the heart-felt prayers of all Canadian Anglicans were being offered for the people of Aberfan.
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate's World Relief Fund (PWRF) - Grants
- Disasters - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Aberfan, Wales