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  • February 4, 2008
    Earthquakes hit Great Lakes region of Africa

    Regional and international staff working for major church agencies involved in the region are consulting about relief interventions in the immediate aftermath of a series of quakes in Africa's Great Lakes area.

  • January 14, 2008
    Food shortages threaten as floods hit Southern Africa

    Extreme rainfall in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe has caused severe flooding with devastating consequences - including food shortages to come as farmers’ crops are washed away, warn international church and development bodies.

  • September 21, 2007
    Warning about disaster impact of extreme rainfall across Africa

    Church and development organisations across Africa say the extreme rainfall experienced by the continent this summer is the worst in decades and is having a devastating impact on the food supply. They are warning that immediate action is needed.

  • August 4, 2007
    UK churches respond to South Asia floods emergency

    Christian Aid emergency staff in South Asia are working with local partner organisations to co-ordinate its response, after the worst floods in years hit a large swathe of northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

  • August 3, 2007
    Support for South Asia flood victims

    India, Bangladesh and Nepal are in need of urgent aid and development support, following the latest disaster.

  • January 6, 2007
    Australian agency urges greater disaster preparedness

    Governments, aid agencies and humanitarian actors must spend twice as much on disaster preparedness activities that could save millions of lives, according to Robert Tickner, CEO of Australian Red Cross.

  • December 18, 2006
    Mennonites bring typhoon relief to storm-hit Vietnamese

    A North American peace church aid and development organization which opposed the US war with Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s, and has continued to build positive relations ever since, is providing 30,000 US dollars worth of help to communities affected by Typhoon Xangsane in the central region of the country.

  • November 4, 2006
    Turning God into a disaster area

    Richard Dawkins is right to attack facile God-talk, says Simon Barrow. Misidentifying the divine as a 'thing' attached to or manipulative of the world is disastrously to misunderstand who and what God might be.