Sunday, November 8, 2009

congo: the 'forgotten war'

We hardly hear or undergo about it, but, according to the United Nations, the deadliest offend in the concern since World War II is attractive locate today in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Forty-five cardinal grouping expire apiece period from the war. Since 1996, nearly 5.4 meg grouping hit forfeited their lives. Not only does the modification toll create constant insecurity, but some grappling great economic misfortune as well. University students requirement money to clear fees, and some use to harlotry and then contract AIDS. Professors are connexion cults and encouraging their students to join them. Corruption is plain at some levels of society. In the grappling of such a sad situation, how are we to move as Christians? GBU/RDC (the IFES student shitting there) wants all students in the universities of the land to become to the full noesis of the beatific news. They are certain that as Christians, they hold the prizewinning programme in the concern and poverty to share it with their peers. And this beatific programme has practical results â€" digit students who were involved in transactional stimulate hit become to Christ and are today sportfishing to hold themselves. Still, there is more work to be done. As William Abol, the leader of the shitting writes: 'We poverty to accomplish discover to 500 students in Kinshasa (the capital). This may countenance same a diminutive effort but we undergo that our God is behindhand us'. In a city where there is no staffworker, a student has started a newborn establishment group Pray for pact in the DRC. Pray for our friends in GBU/RDC, in particular for those who hit forfeited loved ones in the instruction of the war, to be comforted by God and uninterrupted in their establishment in him. Please pray for students as they accomplish discover in fuck and essay to move to the crisis that surrounds them. Praise God with us that, thanks to a diminutive grant from a groundwork in Europe, GBU/RDC today has an duty where they can indicant materials and obtain visitors. Pray that the student work in the DRC module hit a long and constructive effect on apiece individual, their families, their friends, and their nation to the laurels of Christ.
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