Cyclone Freddy: missionary’s anguish

Iain Taylor  |  World
Date posted:  1 Apr 2023
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Cyclone Freddy: missionary’s anguish

Janet Phythian wading through the floodwater

An evangelical missionary in Mozambique says storms and rain were ‘incessant’ and poorly-constructed houses around her were ‘flooding and collapsing’ as a tropical storm battered the country.

Cyclone Freddy, the longest-ever recorded tropical cyclone, which has returned several times, ripped through the country and neighbouring Malawi with over 600 dead and countless people missing, injured or made homeless.

Janet Phythian, of the Growing Hope Mozambique mission, spoke to en in the midst of the Cyclone. She says: 

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