Children
You know after listening to a few news bulletins last week it really made me think how much the World’s children are suffering.
I suppose it all began with the Dispatches Channel 4 Documentary on, ‘Saving Africa’s Witch Children.’ The poor kids were blamed for everything including catastrophes, family and community deaths, famine and just generally bad luck. The kids were labelled witches. They were neglected, abandoned, tortured and killed. How can anyone treat children like this? And it is still happening today, highlighted by a recent court case in the UK. And no I don’t want to hear excuses!
A couple of days later I watched the video about the child soldiers. Known as the ‘Invisible Children,’ thousands have died having been abducted and trained to fight in Joseph Kony’s rebel army in North Uganda. Others murdered if they dared to refuse or disobeyed orders and refused to comply. The use of children has been condemned as abhorrent and totally unacceptable however thousands of children die in conflicts similar to Kony’s army all over the world every year.
The Mexican government estimates that thousands of children are snatched and trafficked across the Mexican border each year.
Did you know that on May 25 2012 it will be the 29th anniversary of National Missing Children’s Day in the United States? First proclaimed by Ronald Reagan it has been observed every year since. How appalling that such a day should be necessary.
An estimated 40 million children are living on the streets of Latin America, many sniffing glue to take away the hunger pains.
In the UK child abuse continues to increase and the NSPCC figures state that nearly half of all serious case reviews are in relation to babies. On average one baby is killed every week in the UK and most often these babes die by the hands of their own parents.
And there are more, and there are more, and there are more. Do your own research and you will discover that children are suffering everywhere, which leads me to believe that the world’s children need our prayers.
Do you pray, ‘cos my prayer today is;-
Dear God. May each one of us reading this blog make a difference for good, in the life of a child or children
Anna
