A Caritas Pakistan Karachi emergency response team visits flooded St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Photo: CPK Masses have been suspended in two Catholic churches in Pakistan’s Karachi Archdiocese after torrential monsoon rain.
Thick black sludge covered the compound of St Francis Xavier Catholic church in the Shahjahanabad area following flooding after three days of heavy downpours in the port city. Five feet of water stood in Shahjahanabad, home to 45 Catholic families.
The church was also swamped last month due to flash flooding.
The wall of a church in the Sadiq Nagar slum collapsed due to heavy rain. Both churches belong to St Philip’s parish of the southern archdiocese.
According to the latest report by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), 58 people have died while 128 houses have been damaged around Pakistan since the beginning of the monsoon last month.
A Caritas emergency response team visited the flood-affected parish at the weekend.