CNA Staff, Feb 12, 2021 / 09:35 am
The Knights of Columbus have sent more than $200,000 of oxygen and related supplies to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru, following pleas from bishop whose people face crowded hospitals amid a coronavirus surge.
Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus had said in a Jan. 16 video, "We, bishops of Amazonas and Roraima, make an appeal: For the love of God, send us oxygen."
He said that during the first wave of the coronavirus, those infected faced a lack of information and hospital beds, but that patients were now dying because of a lack of oxygen tanks.
"Let us all make our contribution and engage with solidarity in caring for the life of one another," Archbishop Steiner added.