Flooding devastates Pakistan

Monsoon rains are causing flooding across Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, resulting in over 200 deaths and leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. The current crisis follows devastating flooding in 2010 which killed about 2,000 people and made 11 million homeless in one of Pakistan's worst natural disasters. Over 800,000 families remain without permanent shelter from last year's country-wide floods and more than one million need food assistance.
“Most parishioners who work on the land, they have no houses, no food, and no water at the moment, no drinking water,” says Bishop Max John Rodrigues of Hyderabad in southern Pakistan. “So really there is a widespread destruction.”
He appealed to the Church throughout the world for help: “Now, what we can do together, all of us, how the Church can show its solidarity, its up to our whole Church how we respond.”
Listen to the full interview by Christopher Wells with Bishop Rodrigues: