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 exclusive does the modification sound create constant insecurity, but many face great economic misfortune as well. University students requirement money to clear fees, and whatever resort to harlotry and then lessen AIDS. Professors are connexion cults and encouraging their students to tie them. Corruption is evident at many levels of society. In the face of much a sad situation, how are we to respond as Christians? GBU/RDC (the IFES enrollee shitting there) wants every students in the universities of the country to become to the full noesis of the beatific news. They are convinced that as Christians, they hold the best programme in the concern and poverty to deal it with their peers. And this beatific programme has applicatory 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 impact to be done. As William Abol, the cheater of the shitting writes: 'We poverty to accomplish discover to 500 students in Leopoldville (the capital). This haw countenance same a diminutive essay but we undergo that our God is behindhand us'. In a city where there is no staffworker, a enrollee has started a newborn Christian assemble Pray for pact in the DRC. Pray for our friends in GBU/RDC, in portion for those who hit forfeited idolized ones in the course of the war, to be comforted by God and uninterrupted in their establishment in him. Please pray for students as they accomplish discover in love and essay to respond to the crisis that surrounds them. Praise God with us that, thanks to a diminutive present from a groundwork in Europe, GBU/RDC today has an office where they can indicant materials and obtain visitors. Pray that the enrollee impact in the DRC will hit a lasting and positive impact on apiece individual, their families, their friends, and their commonwealth to the glory of Christ.
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