Aid centre to help "bear witness to God's love" to those affected and suffering. Special issue of the Catholic weekly on the disaster, only distributed on the Internet because it impossible to print and post. March 24 a special bishops meeting on the emergency. Battle to cool the reactor in Fukushima continues. Reactors n. 1 and 2 now reconnected to power grid.
Aid still has not reached many areas. Children and elderly people could die from lack of water, medicine, heating. Night temperatures below freezing. Message from the Bishop of Osaka to all Catholics appealing for solidarity. The difficulties of the Anglican Church. The country stops for a minute's silence in memory of the dead. Efforts to cool the reactors at the nuclear plant.
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