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May 15, 2015

Church workers reach out to quake victims in remote Himalayan villages

Subu Pariyar and his children sit inside a makeshift shelter May 9 on top of Baretol mountain in Nepal. Their home was destroyed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake April 25.

NAMJUNG, Nepal - "Sir, because of luck, we all survived. But, we may die of hunger," Mithuram Pariyar said when a church relief team arrived after a four-hour drive from Kathmandu.

Published in International
September 11, 2014

Indian church appeals for support for relief work in flood-hit Kashmir

This aerial view taken Sept. 10 shows houses submerged by floodwater in Srinagar, India. While nearly 250 people have perished in the floods following rains in the Kashmir Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas, more than 700,000 people have been maroo ned on rooftops, trees and hills since Sept. 7.

CHENNAI, India - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India has appealed to Catholics to mobilize funds and materials to augment church relief work in northern Jammu and Kashmir state, devastated by floods.

Published in International