Natural Disasters or Divine Punishment?
Hazrat Mirza Tahir AhmadThe Review of Religions, December 1993 [ Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V ] Cataclysms of nature that antedate human existence and sometimes still occur in uninhabited […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat with the help of Humanity First and Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, prepares, packs and distriubtes 2150 meal packets daily in flood affected area of Germany.
By Zubair Khalil Khan It is Meckneheim, a city near Bonn, which has become the focal point for the food preparation, packing and its distribution in the flood affected area of Germany. Even German Army, Police and other departments helping in the restoration of infrastructure are also benefiting from this […]
Here’s What It’s Like in the Bahamas After It Was Devastated by Hurricane Dorian
Source: Time BY TARA LAW Bahamians are scrambling to respond to a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane that the nation’s Prime Minister has described as a “historic tragedy” since the slow-moving storm made landfall […]
870 People Are Still Listed as Missing in the Camp Fire. Inside the Long Process to Find Them
Source: Time By TARA LAW The list of the people unaccounted for after the Camp Fire in Northern California has dropped from more than 1,000 to 870, which may come as […]
‘I Don’t Want to Go Anywhere Else but Home.’ How Residents Will Rebuild a Paradise Destroyed by Wildfire
Source: Time By TARA LAW November 15, 2018 Brenda Howell is glad her father isn’t alive to see Paradise, Calf., today. He was the longtime fire chief of the mountain town […]
California wildfires: Number of missing leaps to 631
Source: BBC News The number of people missing in northern California’s devastating wildfire has leapt to more than 600, and seven more bodies have been found, according to local authorities. […]
California fires: At least 42 die in state’s deadliest wildfire
Source: BBC News Thirteen more bodies have been recovered in California, bringing the death toll in the US state’s deadliest wildfire to 42, officials say. The remains were found in […]
Letter from Africa: The link between earth tremors, God and Nigeria’s elections
Source: BBC News In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why some earth tremors in Nigeria’s capital caused such a stir. Sometime […]
Florence is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane through landfall
Hurricane Florence Expected to Strengthen as It Barrels Toward North Carolina Coast Source: Time By CIARA NUGENT, ALIX LANGONE, and GINA MARTINEZ Hurricane Florence is tracking farther north and is expected to gain […]
Indonesia:Earthquake survivors celebrate Eid in makeshift camps
Rattled quake survivors mark Muslim festival on Indonesian island Source: Reuters KEKAIT, Indonesia (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors on the Indonesian island of Lombok celebrated the Muslim […]
Lombok mosque searched for survivors after deadly quake
Rescuers search collapsed mosque for survivors Source: BBC News Rescue workers are searching the ruins of a mosque in Lombok, Indonesia, where it is feared people were trapped by Sunday’s […]
Lombok residents warned of strong aftershocks
Lombok earthquake: Expert warns of strong aftershocks in Indonesia Source: BBC News Indonesian geologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja warns of strong aftershocks of up to magnitude 6 following the latest earthquake […]
Mass evacuations underway after a powerful earthquake hits Lombok, Indonesia
Lombok quake: Thousands evacuated after dozens die on Indonesia island Source: BBC NEWS Some 10,000 people have been evacuated on the Indonesian island of Lombok after a powerful 6.9 magnitude […]
Forensics experts work on identifying the dead in Greek fire
Source: MSN News By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — All autopsies on the dozens of people who died in Greece’s deadliest wildfire in decades […]
Japan floods: ‘Extreme danger’ amid record rainfall
Source: BBC News “We’ve never experienced this kind of rain before,” a weather official said. More than 60 people are dead and dozens missing after record rainfall caused rivers to […]
Guatemala volcano: Dozens die as Fuego volcano erupts
Source: BBC News Guatemala’s most violent volcanic eruption in more than a century has killed 33 people, officials say. Dozens more are missing, the country’s disaster agency says. Villages on […]
Wildfires Are The ‘New Reality’ For California, Gov. Brown Warns
Source: Huffington Post By Nina Golgowski California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) toured some of the destruction left by unrelenting wildfires across his state on Saturday and warned that climate change is creating […]
Ventura fire: Thousands evacuated in southern California
Source: BBC News Some 27,000 residents were forced to flee their homes in the middle of the night as a fast-moving wildfire ripped through southern California. Several thousand homes are […]
Hurricane Maria hits Virgin Islands and bears down on Puerto Rico
Source: BBC News Hurricane Maria, the second maximum-strength Atlantic storm of the season, has reached the southernmost Virgin Islands as it heads for Puerto Rico. The category five hurricane began […]
Rising River Threatens Florida Residents Still Picking Up the Pieces After Hurricane Irma
Source: Time BY Adriana Gomez Licon, Freida Frisaro / AP Sep 16, 2017 (MIAMI) — Officials went door-to-door Saturday warning residents who live near the Withlacoochee River north of the […]