Key Quotes - Disasters/War

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Last update: Wednesday 25th March




The variety of food available to troops will double in a bid to banish “menu fatigue”. New nutritionally balanced meals are being designed to banish the need for supplements, the Ministry of Defence announced. An MoD spokesman said: “These new menus have been developed to meet the needs of service personnel operating in the extreme climates of Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Disasters/War	The Sentinel - June 25th 2008



The bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones…took issue with a Daily Mail headline: ‘Floods are God’s vengeance for our sins, warns bishop.’ He said: ‘When people lose their lives, others their homes and livelihoods, it is important pastorally to say that the disaster is not a judgement of God on them. That is why I refused to use the language of judgment. God has created a world of cause and effect. If we change the climate through profligate use of carbon, it is we who bring upon ourselves and others the consequences of reaping what we sow.’
Disasters/War	Salvationist (Church Times) - 14 July 2007-07-27



With rampant inflation, two fifths of the population suffering from malnutrition, children dying of hunger and a life expectancy that has fallen from 60 to 40, Zimbabwe is heading for meltdown.
Disasters/War	Christianity May 2007



Mankind’s seemingly inexhaustible capacity to inflict hardship, suffering, injustice and death upon fellow men, women and children is staggering in its scope. Historians have estimated that up to 170 million people have died at the hands of their own brutal, repressive governments during the 20th century, with the worst culprits being China’s Mao Tse-Tung (up to 50 million) and Russia’s Joseph Stalin (over 20 million).
Disasters/War	Needed Truth – December 2006



Burma Army offensives have forced thousands of people from their homes. In the last 40 years 150,000 people have crossed the border into Thailand to escape oppression including 20,000 Karen tribespeople in the last year.
Disasters/War	The Baptist Times – 19th October 2006



Over 250 million people are now being affected by disasters annually. Three times more than during the 1970s. It is predicted that by 2050 there could be as many as 150 million environmental refugees.
Disasters/War	The Church of England Newspaper – 17th November 2006



Church leaders in Zimbabwe say that almost nothing has been done to re-house 700,000 people who lost their homes and livelihoods in massive demolitions last year. At the time the Zimbabwean government said the destruction was to clean up the cities, but many believe it was designed to demoralise President Mugabe’s political opponents.
Disasters/War	The Evangelical Times – October 2006



Tens of thousands of survivors of the last year’s Pakistan earthquake are at risk due to lack of permanent shelters for winter. Around 1.8 million people face a second winter in makeshift shelters and tents while recent land slides and flooding have left quake survivors vulnerable.
Disasters/War	The Sentinel – 4th October 2006



Tens of thousands of survivors of the last year’s Pakistan earthquake are at risk due to lack of permanent shelters for winter. Around 1.8 million people face a second winter in makeshift shelters and tents while recent land slides and flooding have left quake survivors vulnerable.
Disasters/War	The Sentinel – 4th October 2006



Aid agencies are warning that climate change is presenting a serious barrier to reducing world poverty. Today, 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone are at risk of death by the end of the century due to diseases directly attributable to climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict.
Disasters/War	Idea – July / August 2006



As many as 2.8 million people have been left homeless by the South Asia earthquake, with more than 750,000 people killed in the areas affected by the disaster.
Disasters/War	The Sentinel – 23rd February 2006



Two southern districts of Blantyre and Zomba have been hit by severe food shortages. Currently, there are over 4.5 million Malawians in need of food. In addition, floods at the end of 2005 displaced at least 1,000 people and destroyed a much needed maize crop.
Disasters/War	Christian Herald – 21st January 2006



Ethiopia is facing a return to the famine conditions that killed 50,000 in 2000 if EU chiefs carry out a threat to block $37 million of urgent European Union aid.
Disasters/War	The Universe – 15th January 2006



The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck close to Muzaffarabad on October 8th is known to have caused more than 68,000 deaths in India and Pakistan. More than 2.5 million people have been made homeless, or put at risk due to collapsed roads and other damage to essential infrastructure.
Disasters/War	Evangelicals Now – December 2005



The tsunami affected as many as 120,000 people in about 490 villages along Thailand’s Andaman coast and islands. Thousands more have been affected indirectly. Across South Asia, more than 300,000 people lost their lives.
Disasters/War	Tear Times – Winter 2005

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