SENTINEL WATCH May 30, 2005 Issue

PRAYER FOR MUNA

MAIKE BYRD

Maike Byrd is a children's editor for the Sentinel.

WHEN I WAS ASKED the other day if I wanted to join a 24-hour prayer watch for Darfur, I jumped at the opportunity to participate. I thought of a young girl I'd read about. And I knew one thing I could do was to pray regularly for her and her nation.

This girl—I'll call her Muna—was raped by militiamen as she gathered firewood for her family. When she told her parents what had happened, they felt she had dishonored them and threw her out of the house. And as if that wasn't enough, the police beat her and incarcerated her when they found out she was pregnant without being married. She is 16.

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