Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.