Pope urges ‘concrete support’ for Pakistan flood victims

“Our brothers who are undergoing such a cruel ordeal must not lack the solidarity and concrete support of the international community,” he urged during his weekly audience at his summer residence outside Rome.

The floods have affected some 20 million people and claimed at least 1,400 lives in Pakistan’s worst-ever natural disaster.

The United Nations’ aid coordination body said that more than 650,000 homeless families were still without basic shelter.