The Catholic Church in Mexico, through Cáritas Mexicana, has launched a large national aid network for the thousands of affected by torrential rains, which left dozens of colonies in Reynosa underwater, and who have claimed the lives of two people.
“On March 27, 2025, the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, faced torrential rains that caused severe floods in various parts of the city,” says a statement from Cáritas on March 28.
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Fr. Francisco Gallardo López, responsible for the Social Pastoral in the Diocese Matamoros-Reynosa, reported the difficult situation: “Population shock, flooding in much of the city, collapse of roads, affectation of hundreds of homes, interruption in the services of electricity and drinking water and water pollution for mixing with wastewater.”
Given this situation, the bishop of Matamoros Reynosa, Mons. Eugenio Lira, said that 16 collection centers, 13 in Reynosa and 3 in Matamoros, in addition to 8 temporary shelters in Reynosa have been established.
In a video posted on the social networks of the diocese, the prelate said that “we are suffering from what they are suffering” in Reynosa “because of the floods caused by the storm. We are asking God for you and we are doing our best to help you.”
“I thank the priests, deacons, consecrated and faithful people who have been supporting rescue tasks, who have opened shelters and have been offering water and food,” added the bishop, who also extended their thanks to fishermen from nearby towns that arrived “with their boats to support the rescue and distribution of food.”
“Let’s continue asking God and helping the brothers who need our support and be for them witnesses of hope,” he concluded.
The Mexican Caritas statement points out that you can collaborate with bottled water, canned foods and non -perishable foods, as well as personal toilet items such as soap and shampoo.
You can also collaborate economically to the Mexican Cáritas IAP account.
Bank: BBVA
Account: 0123456781
Clabe interbancaria: 012 180 0012 34567815
Concept: “Reynosa floods”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.