Have you been following what is happening in Congo? The country is being ravaged by civil war, with the casualties of the battles being those who have no care for the purported noble reasons for fighting.

I have been reading a lot of articles chronicling the detestation there. People are being shot in front of their families. Rape is a common weapon. Cholera has broken out among the refugee camps. Relief trucks with food for the starving refugees have been ambushed by the military insurgents. The average life span for a child in Congo these days is 5 years. Five.

Would you believe, then, that the man who is driving this devastation is doing so in the name of Christ?

The Lord and Savior I know would not, in any circumstances, have called for this war. No where in the New Testament does it call for someone in leadership to promote rape, murder, destruction, and/or starvation.

If the governments of this world stand silent in the face of these atrocities, ought not the Christians to speak the Truth to this man, to this nation? Prayer is a mighty weapon if only wielded instead of laying fallow in apathy toward a suffering people.