Infecting over 3,000 people and killing at least 250, a cholera outbreak is currently sweeping across Haiti, bringing a new wave of tragedy to a nation which, until now, had been slowly recovering from a massive earthquake earlier this year.
But over the last year, a wave of crime and tragedy has left many church members feeling like victims of a streak of epic misfortune.
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy and the wave of teenage suicides in recent years, cinema can help facilitate a discussion on youth violence and its costs.
Number 8 in the sorted list of tragedies is perhaps the most famous tragedy: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
#MH17 July 20 , 20142.34pm BST Friends and allies of Vladimir Putin could be targeted in a fresh wave of sanctions against Russia following the MH17 tragedy.
The shock waves of the Rwandan tragedy would soon hit home when, three years later, the Congo Republic became embroiled in its own civil war.
Recent days have seen a wave of bloodshed that gave the city still more tragedy and, with it, further reminders of how staggering the violence has been this year.
After any mass killing comes the wave of stories that ask why no one saw the tragedy coming.
As the nation sought to deal with this tragedy, it would face a second wave of terrorism this time, in the form of a biological attack.
In each case, it's now known, the arrival of humans precipitated a wave of extinctions; it's just that, as Russell points out, these "tragedies" were not recorded by the people who produced them.
His death is a tragedy for the campus and our nation". A wave of attacks against western targets has left Benghazi almost empty of foreigners.
