A terrific post from you. Some parts of your writeup aligns with my thinking. The crisis the world faces today is indeed not just a spiritual or economical crisis, but also an ethical crises. People live their lives as if they are sheeps without any shepherds, this makes the world looks uncontrollable.
We have lessons to learn from Ana you mentioned. She lived in a time of crisis too. God protected her and she survived, he will also protect us.