The BBC is reporting at this hour that the head of the Red Cross in the Philippines has described the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan as “absolute bedlam”.
Officials estimate up to 10,000 people have died in Tacloban city and elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced.
Rescue efforts are being hindered by damage to roads and airports.
The storm has now made landfall in north Vietnam, near the Chinese border, but has weakened to a tropical storm.
One of the most powerful storms on record to make landfall, Haiyan – named “Yolanda” by Filipino authorities – barrelled into the eastern coastal provinces of Leyte and Samar on Friday.
People of God, let us stand in the gap for the Philippines by going to our knees and be in constant prayer for the people and their country and that the world will answer the cry for help.
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