My wife often asks me why does God allow these things to happen and I don’t know, I don’t have an answer.
I have two answers.
Acts 17:26-27 KJV
26) And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27) That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Romans 8:28-29 KJV
28) And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
According to the Bible, we live when and where we do so that we each of us has the best opportunity to seek God. The things that happen to us are designed to conform us to the image of Christ.
Though we may not understand how. But we trust Him.
Much love!