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Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday urged the international community to offer “concrete support” to flood-ravaged Pakistan.
“My thoughts at this time go to the dear people of Pakistan,recently struck by serious floods that have claimed numerous victims and left many families homeless,” the pope said.
“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.
