Damaged roads, power blackouts hamper rescue efforts at Indonesian quake site
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March 30, 2021 12:47 IST
Operations were focused on about eight locations in the hardest-hit city of Mamuju, where people were believed to be trapped.
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Rescuers searching for victims at the ruin of a building flattened during an earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on January 16.
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Operations were focused on about eight locations in the hardest-hit city of Mamuju, where people were believed to be trapped.
Damaged roads and bridges, power blackouts and lack of heavy equipment on Saturday hampered rescuers after a strong earthquake left at least 46 people dead and hundreds injured on Indonesia s Sulawesi island.
Vatican City, Feb 10, 2018 / 10:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an off-the-cuff speech Saturday, Pope Francis told members of the Stigmatine Fathers that in community life, fraternity is a grace which requires concrete prayer for each other, and that to hold onto resentment after arguments is a sin.
“The life of community, the life of fraternity, is difficult because there are human problems, jealousies, competitiveness, misunderstandings… Fraternity is a grace, and if there is no prayer, this grace does not come,” the Pope said Feb. 10.
You might say that you pray the Divine Office or meditate on the Gospel, but “do you pray for this brother, for the other… for the Superior?”
Indonesian rescuers find more bodies, clear roads after deadly earthquake
Indonesian rescuers retrieved more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake, raising the death toll to 56 on Sunday, while military engineers managed to reopen ruptured roads to clear access for relief goods.
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Posted: Jan 16, 2021 5:54 PM ET | Last Updated: January 17
A soldier helps a woman to carry her baby as they make their way through an area affected by an earthquake-triggered landslide near Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Saturday.(Yusuf Wahil/The Associated Press)
Indonesian rescuers retrieved more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake, raising the death toll to 56 on Sunday, while military engineers managed to reopen ruptured roads to clear access for relief goods.