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Gulu Prayer Project

Imagine for a moment. Imagine all the children in your town, city, region marching more than 10 miles every night to neighbouring communities. Imagine tens of thousands of children sleeping in any and every possible free space, guarded by a single armed guard, doing school work by candle light, at constant risk of being abused or exploited. Imagine them getting up each morning with the sun to make the long walk home. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. This is the reality of thousands of children in northern Uganda who make this nightly commute to escape from being kidnapped, raped and/or murdered by a militant cult.

Since 1986, northern Uganda has been ravaged by war, led by the rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). More than 250,000 lives have been lost and forced well over two million people to live in horrific conditions in camps where over 1,000 people die each week. Officially, 20,000 children in northern Uganda have been abducted by a brutal rebel army who mutilate, sexually abuse, and force their child victims to kill their parents and friends. As the kidnapping happens in small villages, this number is believed to be significantly higher in reality.

I signed up because I believe in the power of prayer, and I am both intrigued and heartened by how the net is used to start and fuel a community of prayer. I also believe, however, that if we pray for the poor without any other offering of action, we are just like the rabbis who walked past the wounded man in the story of the good Samaritan. Prayer without action is not the practice of religion. That’s why the site also has great information for active campaigns in our own local settings.