Is God to blame for the tragedy? Plus: the recent tsunami updates, ministry amid the wreckage, and Christians give $millions in relief.
Compiled by Rob Moll and Ted Olsen | posted 4/13/2006 12:00AM
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Religious groups offer a hand | Prayers and promises of supplies and cold hard cash are in the works across Colorado's religious landscape this weekend as victims half a world away begin their recovery from a devastating tsunami (The Denver Post)
Northwest team's relief effort mired in the mundane at outset | The Northwest Medical Teams volunteers, anxious to begin treating victims of the tsunami that killed tens of thousands along this country's coast, instead spent a frustrating Sunday buying cartloads of groceries, searching for cell phones and trying to exchange dollars for rupees, only to find banks closed (The Oregonian)
Be kind, but be cautious when giving to tsunami victims | Established charities with tsunami funds are probably legitimate. But philanthropic watchdog groups warn against giving to charities that have tsunami in their names because they're not likely to be established charities (Asheville Citizen-Times, N.C.)
Prayer:
On other side of the world, little to do but offer prayers | In normal times, there might be no evident link between a wooden cabin in the snowbound forests of Sweden and the sunstruck beaches of Southeast Asia. But these are not normal times, and now there is a strand of pain that binds the pine-clad home of Solveig Uhlander to a beach in Thailand where her son, grandson and daughter-in-law have simply disappeared. (New York Times)
Faithful pray for tsunami victims | Across state, somber observances marked (The Boston Globe)
Prayers replace parties to mark 2004's end | Even for those far from Asian and African shores where the giant waves killed more than 120,000, the disaster was too overwhelming for a carefree leap into 2005 (Associated Press)
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