Help After the Floods

(17 August 2006 - RV) Heavy overnight rains triggered fresh flooding in India's Gujarat State forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Military boats and helicopters evacuated the stranded after rivers burst their banks and flooded houses and fields. Much of western and southern India has been badly hit by floods due to annual monsoon rains for the past fortnight, with nearly 400 people killed and up to four million people displaced. Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandez of the Gandhinager Archdiocese told us how the Church is responding to the new environmental crisis.