PTI, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pope Francis has inquired about the hardships and sufferings caused to Kerala’s fishermen community in the Ockhi cyclone that ravaged the coastal belt on November 30, the Archbishop of the Latin Catholic Church said here today.
Archbishop Soosai Pakiyam said he received a phone call last Saturday from the Vatican stating that the Pope wanted to know the details of the cyclone that hit the state’s coast and a brief to broadcast it through the Vatican radio.
“They also recorded a five minute long message through telephone,” the Archbishop said at a march of fishermen, organised by the Latin Catholic Church here. It was under these circumstances, Pope Francis on Sunday remembered and prayed for the victims of the cyclone, he said. During his speech, the Archbishop said it was a grave negligence on the part of authorities, whoever they may be, not to take seriously information passed by central agencies on the impending cyclone and issue proper warning about it.
