January 17, 2015
A storm has forced Pope Francis (click here) to cut short his visit to the Philippine city of Tacloban, which was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan just over a year ago.
Amid strong winds and pouring rain, he celebrated Mass with thousands of worshippers earlier on Saturday.A storm has forced Pope Francis (click here) to cut short his visit to the Philippine city of Tacloban, which was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan just over a year ago.
He was due to go on to meet survivors of the typhoon but had to leave early because of worsening conditions.
An audience at a cathedral gave an anguished gasp when he told them he would have to go....
Super Typhoon Haiyan did catastrophic damage, but, it hasn't stopped.
September 20, 2015
Rains and floods (click here) from tropical storm Fung-Wong have left at least five dead in Philippines, and hundreds of thousands of people displaced.
Almost a month's rain fell on the capital Manila in less than 24 hours, as Denise Hammick reports.
The Climate Crisis has been a profound reality in this area of the world. I am sure the faithful turning out to the Papal visit was seeking a blessing. His visit is important to let the people know they have not been forgotten, although their suffering tells them otherwise.
December 30, 2015
Malaysia, southern Thailand and parts of the Philippines (click here) have been battered by heavy rain and flash floods in recent
days, killing dozens of people.
Malaysia's worst flooding in a
decade forced nearly a quarter of a million people from their homes,
authorities said, with the government coming under renewed fire for its
perceived slow response.The National Security Council said that "exceptionally high" water levels had cut off rescuers from relief centres, as the death toll rose to 21 across the northeast....
The Climate Crisis is effecting people differently across the world. Most leaders have reacted to the increasing sea level, but, little did they expect the chronic flooding of the Pacific islands.
January 18, 2015
By Floyd Whaley and Austin Ramzy
MANILA — As he celebrated Sunday Mass (click here) before a crowd of millions here in a cornerstone of Catholicism in Asia, Pope Francis stressed the need to care for the world’s poor, a theme he has repeated throughout his five-day visit to the Philippines.
He also touched on the subject of the environment, a topic he is expected to address in depth in an encyclical later this year.
God
“created the world as a beautiful garden and asked us to care for it,”
Francis said. “Through sin, man has disfigured that natural beauty.
Through sin, man has also destroyed the unity and beauty of our human
family, creating social structures that perpetuate poverty, ignorance
and corruption.”...
