Rome - Pope Benedict XVI called for immediate help for the refugees from the conflict in South Ossetia on Sunday. "I call for the opening, without further delay, of humanitarian corridors between South Ossetia and the rest of Georgia so that the dead who are still abandoned can receive a proper burial, the wounded can be treated and people can rejoin their loved ones," the head of the Catholic Church said following his Angelus blessing.
Benedict said that he was closely following the plight of the many women and children "without even the basics to survive," and that ethnic minorities caught in the conflict must have their human rights guaranteed.
In the past week the pope has appealed to the belligerents in the conflict to refrain from further violence in the name of the wider Christian community.
