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Eye on the World: Protecting the innocent in Nigeria
On April 15 Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group, kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok, a town in northeastern Nigeria. The Nigerian military is searching for the girls, but most remain in captivity, save for 53 who have escaped. Nigerians have organized large protests over the government’s inability to locate the missing girls; families fear that the military’s search-and-rescue plan is not effective. The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, released a video this week in which he said he planned to sell the girls into slavery.
How can prayer help in a situation such as this? The location of the girls isn’t known, but God’s power transcends geographic distance, speaking directly to each of His children. And a clear understanding of God’s laws can help bring an end to kidnapping and slavery.
“Human trafficking: don’t look away” explains how each of us can engage with this issue from a spiritual basis. When we insist in prayer that all men, women, and children are made in God’s image, as the Bible attests, we’re protesting against the view that men or women can be victimized or victimizers. The author writes, “Prayer reveals that man’s true nature is always to help, never to hurt, and never to attempt to profit at someone else’s expense.”
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