Tim Ellsworth

Tomorrow night an event called the Global Night Commute is taking place in several cities across the country. It’s an effort to raise awareness about the plight of Ugandan children who are being abducted and forced into the service of the Lord’s Rebellion Army.

Matt Newman has written about this sad situation here. Here’s an excerpt:

Uganda is in the midst of the longest-running war in Africa. Every day, 130 people lose their lives to violence in this fight. The leaders of the Lord’s Rebellion Army, wanting to replenish and add to their forces, nightly raid the outlying homes and abduct the children. They force these children to be killers. Any who refuse or try to escape serve as examples to the other children. They are tortured and killed. Over the course of the war, an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 children have been abducted by the LRA.

These children flee to the cities for protection. They are not safe in their homes. This would not be tolerated in the West. If thousands of American children were sleeping in the streets every night, something would be done. If they were Europeans, someone would intervene. Why then is this happening? Are the children of Africa any less important than our own? Are they any less worthy of basic human rights, of being safe in their own homes? Indeed, are they any less human?

Matthew also includes links to sites where more information is available. I’m happy to say that several students from Union University are participating in this event as well.