The force of the cyclone has destroyed homes, schools and hospitals while intense rainfall, as much as 180mm (7") in 24 hours, has created vast inland lakes leaving people stranded on rooftops and in trees. Many are unable to swim and those who can are at risk from crocodiles. There is no sign of the waters receding and levels are expected to keep rising until the end of the month.

Church members waved placards inscribed with messages denigrating the clergyman "Go well Erick, mbavha munyika and not muchurch, No to Corruption."

Riot police turned down request by protesters to hold a march fearing it may turn violent or cause traffic congestion.

The committee, which was set up in 2016, is tasked with licensing construction and restoration of churches across Egypt, a process which previously required the presidential approval of every single instance of construction at any church in Egypt. It has so far approved restoration and legalisation of about 783 churches.

The Anglican Church, or Church of England, dates back to 1534 and King Henry VIII's famous split with the Catholic Church. But the Anglican Church in America is much more recent. It sprang from the objections of more socially conservative members of the nation's Episcopal Churches, who then left those parishes in protest and affiliated with the more theologically traditional Anglican Church.