Earthquake in Venezuela: help can be found through a collection
Two devastating earthquakes with a magnitude exceeding 7 on the Richter scale struck the region near the Venezuelan capital Caracas on the evening of Wednesday, June 24, 2026. The affected areas report over 1,700 deaths, thousands of injured and tens of thousands missing. The Evangelical Church has announced a fundraiser, the proceeds of which will be sent to the affected area through its partner organization GAW.
Dozens of foreign rescue teams are helping at the scene of the disaster, but the prognosis is not good. Officially, the authorities are missing 50 thousand people, a significant part of whom are probably under the rubble, and the chances of survival are decreasing as time goes on. This is probably the most devastating event of its kind in the region in the last 100 years.
The Synodal Council announced an extraordinary collection and released CZK 200,000 from this collection for immediate assistance through the Gustav-Adolf-Werk organization, with which our church has long cooperated and which operates in the locality.
The Evangelical Church therefore calls:
- on parishes to consider announcing congregational collections for this purpose and, if possible, to add to the support by sending contributions by the end of August 2026 to the account 7171717171/2700 with the variable symbol 911180xxxx (where xxxx is the congregation number);
- on individuals to join with their donations by transferring them to the same account (7171717171/2700) under the variable symbol 911180 – or directly via the QR payment below. The collection of individual donations also lasts until the end of August 2026.
(Scan the QR code in your banking application, the amount is preset to 200 CZK and can be edited as desired before sending.)
"If the source of our faith is the Gospel, which includes the suffering of Christ, then every sufferer becomes a person close to us from a stranger and distant person," invites the Synodal Senior of the Evangelical Church, Pavel Pokorný, to the collection.
We thank all donors and ask for your prayers for the affected region. We think with great gratitude of those who, with the risk of their own lives, help mitigate the effects of the disaster, rescue victims, treat the wounded, provide humanitarian or psychological assistance, or are in any way close to those who have been painfully affected by the event.
(Photo: „WCK in Caracas, Venezuela after devastating earthquakes“, author: World Central Kitchen, license: CC BY 4.0.)