4.23.2006
This Could Be My Baby
This is a photo of Mihad Hamid, a year old girl, whose mother had attempted to escape an attack from helicopter gunships and Janjaweed marauders on their village, Alliet, in October 2004. Mihad had been hit by a bullet, puncturing her lungs. Mihad is the same age as my own baby Jane.
This morning, Spencer preached about social persecution and reminded us of how anything we experience as American Christians pales in comparison to what our Sudanese brothers are experiencing. Oh God! Please forgive me for ever whining about a social snub...
A World magazine reporter said: "Every day we surveyed evidence of killings: men castrated and left to bleed to death, huts set on fire with people locked inside, children with their faces smashed in, men with their ears cut off and eyes plucked out, and the corpses of people who had been executed with gunshots to the head. We spoke with thousands of witnesses -- women who had been gang-raped and families that had lost fathers, people who plainly and soberly gave us their accounts of the slaughter."
Amazingly, in spite of war's devastation, Christianity has become the fastest growing religion in Sudan.
6 Comments:
This hurts my heart too...
Mary, mom to many, some born not far from Sudan
Puts everything in perspective somehow. This gives me such a huge feeling of helplessness and thankfulness at the same time.
My Baby is one, too. And now I have to go kiss her sleeping cheek and thank God above she is safe from flying bullets.
Absolutely heartbreaking.... Doesn't this 'conflict' involve the Islamic movement too?
Yes, Rachel. I guess the one "good" thing that has come out of all of this is that the Sudanese, as well as the rest of the world, has seen the evil side os Islam.
Wow! Such a sweet baby...you just want to hold her....
Lord, teach us to be thankful for every waking/sleeping moment of peace and security we have in this country....
How blessed we are Jesus..we don't deserve it.
Heartbreaking. I let myself forget about their struggle too often. Thank you for the reminder.
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