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More than 240 people were killed and millions displaced across South Asia as the intense monsoon season wreaked havoc in the region with torrential rains and severe floods, damaging buildings, infrastructure and crops.Rescuers prepare to evacuate residents as floodwaters submerge areas of Myitkyina in Myanmar's northern Kachin State on July 2.
While the Irrawaddy has overflowed in peak monsoon seasons in the past, the flooding this time"was the worst in living memory," 63-year-old Father Sheridan said. He believes it has been made worse by environmental damage and climate change. "In the middle of the night I felt a bit afraid, the water was rising -- would it stop?" the priest recalled thinking."At about 1.30 a.m. I read the Gospel for Mass. It was the passage from Matthew 8, 23-27, where Jesus is asleep in the back of the boat while the storm rages, and the disciples thought the boat was sinking. 'Don't you care we are going to drown?' they asked. My prayer to Jesus was with the full force of the disciples' prayer.
The people the RRC assists, he said, were"extraordinary" in their response to the flooding."While it was a difficult situation, there was a great sense of unity in our center as together we sought to save as much as we could." The RRC's recovery program offers new life to those caught in addiction to heroin. The RRC is the only residential treatment center in Myitkyina offering the 12-step programs of Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous. It is the only center with a residential facility for women.
"The ongoing violence in Myanmar is a threat to everybody. It is constantly on the minds of everyone in our center and everybody I meet in Myitkyina," he said.
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