The destroyed church of Santiago Apostol Atzala, Mexico (CNS photo/Francisco Guasco, EPA) In the aftermath of two earthquakes in the span of two weeks in Mexico, Church-based relief agencies have been on the ground providing food, shelter and repairs.
The magnitude 7.1 quake hit near Mexico City last week and killed more than 230 people and injured more than 2,000 in the crumbling wreckage. The earthquake follows the magnitude 8.1 earthquake on September 7 which occurred off the coast of south-eastern Mexico that killed at least 90 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
Malteser International, a relief organisation sponsored by the Order of Malta has sent a team of volunteers to Mexico City to provide rescue and first-aid help.
South Sudan war has robbed childhoods
War in South Sudan has robbed young people of their childhood and given them challenges unknown to their peers in most other countries, said the head of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
“My heart breaks at the thought that your childhoods are being taken away from you daily, but I know that you have not lost your vision or your hope for a better future,” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, said in a statement to mark International Day for Peace.
The bishops’ conference includes all dioceses in Sudan and South Sudan. The war has killed thousands, displaced nearly 1 million people, ignited a man-made famine and destroyed the country’s economy.