Tropical Storm Amanda drenched El Salvador on May 31, killing 16 people and causing widespread damage to roads and bridges from overflowing rivers. Thousands were left homeless in areas already deeply affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The homes of more than 160 Adventist families were destroyed or flooded, and many of them are in shelters, church leaders said. No deaths among the church members were reported.
“Even through this situation that we are living today here in El Salvador, with…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/3Eb8ZcWc0vg/

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia (AUC) has joined church leaders from around the world in condemning racism and violence, as the world reels from the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.
Pastor Jorge Munoz, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, released a statement on Facebook on June 2 expressing sadness over the events that had transpired in the United States, while acknowledging that “In Australia, we too are not exempt from similar issues, and as followers…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/P17j7nF60tc/

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is immersed in the lives of vulnerable people around the world. We have seen families fleeing genocide in Myanmar, girls forced into early marriage in Uganda, children starving to death in Madagascar, poor communities desperate for hope in Syria, and entire neighborhoods washed away in The Bahamas.
For more than 30 years, we have seen—and fought to change­—inequality, poverty, hunger, and despair in more than 100 developing countries around the world….Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/PKZKgGuYfCc/

On behalf of all Seventh-day Adventist Church members in the Trans-European Division, our heartfelt sorrow and sympathy go to the family of George Floyd. An unarmed black man, Floyd died on 25 May after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes while Floyd repeatedly complained that he could not breathe.
His horrific death has caused a heartfelt outpouring of protest and concern from people, not just in the USA, but world-wide, under the slogan, ‘I can’t…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/xsic2SOKups/

Amphan, the most powerful cyclone to hit Bangladesh this year with wind speeds of 160 kph (100 mph), made landfall on May 20 along the city’s coastal and southwestern districts. Thousands of houses were destroyed, poultry farms were devastated, thousands of trees uprooted, roads were left nearly impassable, and countless shelters were lost.
Hundreds of villages were inundated in Bhola, Patuakhali, Barguna, Khulna, Bagerhat, and Satkhira. Additionally, tidal surges battered areas in Barguna,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Rw6Tkr5lC6o/