Eyewitness to a Beheading

Recently I was reading in the Old Testament about beheadings that had taken place back in Old Testament times.  And as I read the scriptures, I kept thinking about all the news I read regularly on the subject of beheading.  Today as just one example, I've read six different stories that discussed beheading in some form or another.  But this story is the one I have to share with you.

Although I see no direct link to Christian persecution in the article, I want you to read this because it will give you some insight to the deep and horrible trauma that someone goes through who sees such a horrific act being carried out.  And I would plead with you to keep this precious girl in your prayers.

GULU, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its decades-long insurgency in the north have to live with the trauma and psychological scars long after their rescue and return to civilian life. One such is Alice*, abducted in 2005 when she was only 12. She told IRIN about her escape from rebel captivity in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo: 

“Rebels emerged from the bush as I was helping my mother harvest groundnuts and abducted me; one of the rebel commanders, called Pope, said he would kill me if I escaped. 

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"Although I was put under tight security, I decided to escape one day while going to fetch water. I walked in the forest for two weeks, looking for any place where UN peace-keeping forces could be. I was scared and thought the wild animals would kill me in the jungle. 

"Another boy who had also escaped the rebels joined me but he was killed by civilians in Congo. His head was cut off and the people carried his head, saying rebels were killing people in Congo. 

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"I know that other children in the rebel camp want to escape but they are scared of people in Congo. I cry a lot when I imagine how my friend was beheaded and other parts of his body cut up; why do people kill children? We were all abducted and did not want to be with the rebels. 

Will you pray for Alice?  Leave us a comment.

Comments

[april]

i will be praying for alice that she will grow in God and that he will help her get through this tragedy that she saw

[Heidi Rafferty]

How does a person find out how to help these kids?
How can we as individuals get involved and HELP?
If anyone knows where to send the relief money, where the adoption agencies exist, where the resources are collected ... I'd love to find out the answer. Reading these accounts in Kentucky while knowing they're going on a half-planet away is quite maddening with no way of knowing what to do about it.