Pope prays for flood and earthquake victims
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Channel: Vatican News · 2009 · People & Blogs
After the Angelus prayer this morning in St. Peter's Square, Benedict XVI recalled the tsunami victims in Samoa and Tonga Islands, those of the typhoon in the Philippines and Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the devastating earthquake in Indonesia and the floods in Messina, Sicily. "I am spiritually close to the displaced and all those who are suffering, said the Pope, who asked that that solidarity and international support is not lacking". On the opening day of the second Synod for Africa, "a land rich in human life, but unfortunately marked by poverty and so often by many grave injustices," Benedict XVI recalled the serious violence that rocked the African population of Guinea and urged all parties to ...
