This website is best viewed with CSS and JavaScript enabled.

Home > disaster

News Stories


disaster

West Indies’ Archbishop speaks of Caribbean “resilience” after Hurricanes Irma and Maria

Archbishop John Holder has briefed his fellow Anglican Primates on the devastation caused by two recent hurricanes in the Caribbean.

06 October 2017

Melanesian Anglicans help evacuation of the island of Ambae

The entire population of the Vanuatuan island of Ambae has being evacuated amid fears that the giant Manaro volcano is about to erupt. 

05 October 2017

Bishop of Mexico thanks Communion for prayers and concern

The Bishop of Mexico has thanked members of the Anglican Communion for their prayers and concern following last week’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

29 September 2017

Prayer urged as natural disasters strike Mexico and Caribbean islands

More than 225 people have died after a large earthquake struck Mexico; and Caribbean islands are being devastated by Hurricane Maria.

20 September 2017

Prayer and action following Sierra Leone landslides

Mass burial ceremonies for the victims of this week’s catastrophic landslides in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown have begun.

17 August 2017

Churches mobilised as Sri Lanka floods death toll passes 200

Clergy in Sri Lanka have been urged to prepare their churches and church halls to provide refuge for people displaced by serious flooding. 

31 May 2017

Church responds to devastating Cyclone Vardah

Church leaders from the diocese of Madras distributed food parcels and other aid to some of the thousands of people displaced by Cyclone Vardah.

12 January 2017

New start for Cylone Winston-hit Fijian village of Maniava

New houses, a church and a school are being built in the Fiji village of Maniava, which was all-but blasted from the map when Cyclone Winstone hit in February.

07 December 2016

Wales remembers 116 children "buried alive by the National Coal Board"

The 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, in which 116 children and 28 adults were killed, is being remembered across Wales and elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

21 October 2016

Episcopal agency working in Haiti and south east US following Hurricane Matthew

Food, water and shelter is being provided for approximately 520 families staying on church properties in Haiti’s southern peninsula following last week’s devastating Hurricane Matthew.

20 October 2016