ASIA/SRI LANKA – State of emergency due to Cyclone Ditwah: Catholic churches open to displaced people and committed to providing aid

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Churches and temples in Sri Lanka have been turned into emergency relief camps for thousands left stranded by Cyclone Ditwah, which brought heavy rains, flooding, and landslides across the island nation. The disaster, called the “most challenging” in the nation’s history by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has so far killed 465 people, while 366 are still missing. The Oblates join hands with the civil authority in supplying flood and continue identify them with homeless and most abandoned.