December 28, 2004
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Tonight, I've been trying to follow news about this. It's a bit
frustrating that our news has more coverage of San diego "storms" and
local flooding (though serious) than this recent natural disaster
claiming at least 60,000 lives so far (estimates are that these numbers
may double from disease). This is the largest quake in about
four decades.I've ignored news of other tsunamis in the past, but this one caught
my attention because I now knew people who live (or lived) in places
like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar ... all affected by
the tsunami.[12/30 -- One of my England teammates shared an insight into this event as an act of God]
[12/31 -- Some good suggestions from a canadian friend on organizations to support if you want to do something. Gospel for Asia (K.P. Yohannan serves as president of this group) and World Relief Canada (Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is matching donations (4:1) made to World Relief Canada). I can't believe that the death toll has already doubled to over 120,000 since I put out my initial post.]
[1/5 -- Our fellowship is planning to spend time praying about this tonight. An article by a teen we met in Birmingham, UK.]
Comments (4)
http://www.ft.com
i found the financial times reported some useful info about the tsunamis
I hate to say this, but I've also noticed your observation. It's an unfortunate side effect to the ethno-centricity of American culture. When I was training in NY, we took a trip back up to Toronto to grab the Globe and Mail and brought it back down to the States. All of our colleagues from international offices, like us, were hungry for news from outside of NY city/NY state and we soon found the paper distributed amongst all the international trainees.
Perhaps check out http://www.cbc.ca or the BBC for reports of what is going on abroad.
http://wadoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/our-desperate-world.html
check out nick's post.
Sup Dave Chu
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