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Pope helps families of missing sailors
Author:Mariusz Dasiewicz
Pope Francis sends financial assistance to the families of the missing crew members of the Gulf Livestock 1 ship, which sank near Japan on September 2. In this way, the Holy Father wants to express his closeness and solidarity with those who have lost their loved ones.
Pope Francis, through the Dicastery of Integral Human Development, decided to financially help all the families of crew members of the Gulf Livestock 1 ship, which sank on September 2, near the Japanese island of Amami Ōshima.
Financial assistance, in cooperation with Apostolic Nunciatures and Stella Maris from the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, will be given personally to the missing families, along with a personal gift from Francis. The Pope wants to express his closeness and solidarity with the families of the victims.
Gulf Livestock 1 was a so-called livestock ship, or livestock transport ship, sailed on 14 August from Napier, New Zealand with the transport of nearly 6,000 head of cattle and 43 crew members on board. The transport was heading for Jingtang port in Tangshan, China. During the typhoon he went missing in the East China Sea near Okinawa. However, he managed to signal SOS around the western part of Amami Oshima Island in southwest Japan.
Japanese Coast Guard She saved one crewman of the Gulf Livestock 1 ship, which turned out to be a senior officer, 45-year-old Filipino Eduardo Sareno. As the Coast Guard spokeswoman reported, a rescued Filipino said the ship first suffered an engine failure and then hit it waveWho turned him upside down. The crew of the ship consisted of 39 people from the Philippines, two from New Zealand and two Australians.
Source: Sunday.pl
