Believers have raised funds and packed boxes while struggling to understand why disasters happen

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0110/p03s01-ussc.html

[Christian Science Monitor] January 10, 2005--All this effort comes amid spirited discussion within faith communities about their views of God's role in the disaster. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, made headlines Jan. 2 with a post-tsunami column in London's Sunday Telegraph titled "Of course this makes us doubt God's existence." The Anglican dean of Sydney, Philip Jensen, meanwhile touched off his own tempest by describing the wave as a "warning of God's judgment." In the Jakarta Post, Muslims debated what might have been God's message in sending the tsunami.