Christians in the cyclone-devastated Mozambican town of Buzi on Sunday celebrated Palm Sunday among ruins.
BUZI - Christians in the cyclone-devastated Mozambican town of Buzi on Sunday celebrated Palm Sunday among ruins -- a month afterAround 400 worshippers made their way through the streets for the Palm Sunday procession with fallen trees and buildings with no roofs, windows or doors still visible.
One man held a wooden cross, leading the hundreds of other believers as residents watched from the terraces of buildings that survived the cyclone.The procession ended with a mass at Lady of Grace Parish Catholic Church, in the township of Barrio Manasse, whose zinc roof sheets were blown off by the cyclone."Most of our congregants are still trying to rebuild their houses that were destroyed by the cyclone," the priest, father Celso Taibo told AFP.
"But we still have a high number of congregants in attendance because they still believe in God despite what happened and they believe it's no reason to stop believing in God," he said.Buzi was one of the areas hardest hit by southern Africa's deadly cyclone. Cyclone Idai cut a path of destruction through Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe on the night of March 14-15,among the 1.85 million affected while over 340 died in Zimbabwe.
Two streets away from the church, piles of bibles, school books and even hospital records damaged by water lay strewn along a roadside.
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