Intrigue

60 Minutes had an incredible story that unveiled the incredibly atrocious story about war and rape in the Congo.

Soldiers systematically rape women, constantly. One account tells a story of a victim who was raped, washed, and raped again in front of her brother. When her brother was told to rape her, he refused, and was stabbed to death. She was then raped every day for 8 months, everyday. She eventually became pregnant by her rapist, and her husband left her. She named that child, “Love,” because she was eventually able to return home and find hope.

Love? Freaking Love? Where’s the love?

Rape here is so bad, women with polio are raped, women who can’t control their bodily functions … raped.

Their government, and the justice system, does nothing.

Tell me why we are fighting the war in Iraq again and not helping these people?
Oh that’s right, we have to protect “our” interests.

When do we begin asking a real question about how we can really create peace in the world?
Oh that’s right, we throw money at it.

How does the church respond to crisis like this?
Oh that’s right, we have to add a new ministry that specifically targets the big tithers.

Where is the hope?

This story is so devastating.
I really feel called to causes like this, and I’m seriously considering not spending thousands of dollars on graduate/law school, but instead - living my life fighting these causes.

Watch about it, and read it … let it burden you. Tragically, like most people we’ll read this story, comment on this blog post, and move on and return to our lives, because tragically we are too removed and too separated from the situation to genuinely be compelled to action. Tragic.

A Crisis, in the Congo.