Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster on a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The official death count after Cyclone Nargis stood at just under half that by 1300 GMT today, at around 22,500 people dead plus a further 41,000 missing.
But due to the incompleteness of the information from the stricken delta of the Irrawaddy river, UN and charity workers in the city of Rangoon privately believe that the number will eventually be double that.
"We are looking at 50,000 dead and millions homeless," Andrew Kirkwood, country director of the British charity Save The Children, told The Times.
How are we as Christians to process this from a Biblical point of view?
I am posting an interview that Dr. John Piper gave to NPR a few years ago after the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
This interview is spot on when it comes to our response to tragedy from a Christian perspective.
May I encourage you to grab a cup of coffee and a notebook as you listen carefully to this interview.
God is sovereign over TSUNAMIS AND CYCLONES
