My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.Hosea 4 : 6
Paul Mathiasen
Tue, April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM GMT+32 min read
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By Paul Mathiasen
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – A catastrophic roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic’s capital killed at least 113 people on Tuesday and emergency crews were working frantically after nightfall to pull survivors from the rubble.
About 155 people were injured.
Families of the victims gathered near the Jet Set nightclub seeking information about their loved ones.
“I still have family members that are still in the rubble, and we don’t know what happened to them,” Pedro Martinez, a 17-season Major League Baseball player, said in a video shared on his Instagram account in the evening.
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The deceased include a popular singer, a provincial governor and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel, authorities said.
Everything in the world is in agitation. The signs of the times are ominous. Coming events cast their shadows before. The Spirit of God is withdrawing from the earth, and calamity follows calamity by sea and by land. There are tempests, earthquakes, fires, floods, murders of every grade. Who can read the future? Where is security? There is assurance in nothing that is human or earthly. Rapidly men are ranging themselves under the banner they have chosen. Restlessly they are waiting and watching the movements of their leaders.
An intensity such as never before was seen is taking possession of the world. In amusements, in money-making, in the contest for power, in the very struggle for existence, there is a terrible force that engrosses body and mind and soul. In the midst of this maddening rush, God is speaking. He bids us come apart and commune with Him. “Be still, and know that I am God.”
“Come unto Me,” Christ says, “and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest.” ST July 6, 1904, par. 1 – ST July 6, 1904, par. 3
Juan Manuel Mendez, head of the Dominican Republic’s emergency operations center, said earlier on Tuesday that the exact number of people inside the club at the time of the collapse remained unclear.
The emergency crews’ capacity was increased as “more heavy equipment has been used to speed up the removal of debris and continue the search efforts”, presidential spokesperson Homero Figueroa said in a statement.
Indulgences_concert by popular Dominican merengue singer!
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.Isaiah 23 : 15, Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.Daniel 3 : 3
The disaster struck during a concert by popular Dominican merengue singer Rubby Perez, whose body was found on Wednesday morning, according to authorities. The event was attended by politicians, athletes and other prominent figures.
In Germany the sale of indulgences had been committed to the Dominican friars and was conducted by the infamous Tetzel. In Switzerland the traffic was put into the hands of the Franciscans, under the control of Samson, an Italian monk. Samson had already done good service to the church, having secured immense sums from Germany and Switzerland to fill the papal treasury. Now he traversed Switzerland, attracting great crowds, despoiling the poor peasants of their scanty earnings, and exacting rich gifts from the wealthy classes. But the influence of the reform already made itself felt in curtailing, though it could not stop, the traffic. Zwingli was still at Einsiedeln when Samson, soon after entering Switzerland, arrived with his wares at a neighboring town. Being apprised of his mission, the Reformer immediately set out to oppose him. The two did not meet, but such was Zwingli’s success in exposing the friar’s pretensions that he was obliged to leave for other quarters.
At Zurich, Zwingli preached zealously against the pardonmongers; and when Samson approached the place, he was met by a messenger from the council with an intimation that he was expected to pass on. He finally secured an entrance by stratagem, but was sent away without the sale of a single pardon, and he soon after left Switzerland. GC 178.4 – GC 179.1
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The son of the Dominican minister of public works and communications Eduardo Estrella, Eduardo Guarionex Estrella, was also found among the deceased on Wednesday, authorities said.
Another victim was Nelsy Cruz, the governor of the northern Monte Cristi province, President Luis Abinader said. Cruz was the sister of former baseball player Nelson Cruz, a seven-time MLB All-Star.
Former MLB players Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco also died in the collapse, local authorities confirmed. Dotel died en route to a local hospital after being pulled from the debris, a spokesman for the nation’s sports ministry said.
Dotel, 51, debuted for the New York Mets in 1999 and played until 2013 for more than a dozen teams.
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“Thinking about our people in the Dominican Republic,” Carlos Mendoza, manager of the Mets, said at a press conference.
[12] And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: [13] For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
Genesis 19 : 12-13
The crisis is stealing gradually upon us. The sun shines in the heavens, passing over its usual round, and the heavens still declare the glory of God. Men are still eating and drinking, planting and building, marrying, and giving in marriage. Merchants are still buying and selling. Men are jostling one against another, contending for the highest place. Pleasure lovers are still crowding to theaters, horse races, gambling hells. The highest excitement prevails, yet probation’s hour is fast closing, and every case is about to be eternally decided. Satan sees that his time is short. He has set all his agencies at work that men may be deceived, deluded, occupied and entranced, until the day of probation shall be ended, and the door of mercy be forever shut.
Solemnly there come to us down through the centuries the warning words of our Lord from the Mount of Olives: “Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.” “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” DA 636.2 – DA 636.3
Relatives were receiving psychological support and the cause of the roof collapse remained under investigation, officials said.
[4] Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? [5] I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. [6] He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
Luke 13 : 4-6
(Reporting by Paul Mathiasen and Erika Santelices in Santo Domingo; Writing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez, Natalia Siniawski and Isabel Teles; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne, Kevin Liffey, Matthew Lewis, David Gregorio, Lincoln Feast and Alex Richardson)
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