Religions and natural evil

These resources are good but I did not find any focus on Islam.</p> To make use of the resources you need a video from the 1984 famine. This can be found on the following link</p> - </p>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8315248.stm </p> It is important, if using this harrowing video, to alert the classes to the fact that climate change is caused by Global Warming, which is caused by industrialisation in the rich world - but its impact is most acute in the poor world. Here, in Ethiopia, drought had caused the harvest to fail for three years. </p> There had been warnings for months that this disaster was looming. Why do you think nobody did anything to prevent it?</p> It would be great to follow a lesson like this with an exploration of Bob Geldorf's response and Live Aid. We are not helpless in the face of suffering. Even one individual who has a sense of oneness and love can make a real difference to the lives of many.</p> Two interesting questions to ask when looking at natural evil:</p> Does the suffering make you question the existence of God?</p> Does the fact that when we see suffering we care, we feel concern and compassion, we want to help - and perhaps manage to do something which reduces the suffering - strengthen your faith in or make you consider seriously - God's existence?