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Why do you believe in God? With all of the evil in the world, isn't it obvious that God does not exist?
What do you mean by evil? In your atheistic worldview, how are you able to judge between good and evil? In your worldview, aren't good and evil determined by the consensus of the majority, such that whatever people agree to be good is good and whatever they agree to be evil is evil? If this is the case, then there can be no objective good or evil. Why would the mass extermination of a people be evil instead of good? Wouldn't that just be survival of the fittest? And why would thousands killed by an earthquake be a travesty if by their death they provide more resources for the majority of the herd? Many atheists unwittingly borrow the ideas of good and evil from the Christian worldview.
That being said, within the Biblical worldview, there are evil things that happen. Though against His laws, God does not stop all murders, abductions, abuse and the like. Man has chosen to go his own way and sins like this are at the hand of wayward mankind. God's reasons for allowing these moral evils (as well as natural disasters from earthquakes to diseases) may remain unknown at times, but we can trust that the one who is goodness Himself has reason enough for permitting these things until the day they are no more.
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Helpful Links Addressing the Question of "If God is good, why is there evil?"