Team Jesus, Pray with us that the violence stops and the sick and hungry get help! Lord have mercy!
Baptist Press
By Ken Camp, posted February 28, 2025 in International News, Persecution
Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said.
In a series of recent emails to the Baptist Standard, Léon Lepamabila, secretary general of the Communauté Baptiste des Fidèles en Afrique and a pastor in Kinshasa, said pastors and representatives of nonprofits working in the region reported severe food insecurity and overcrowded hospitals.
Lepamabila pointed to continuing violence in Goma in North Kivu Province and Bakuva in South Kivu Province, which are controlled by the Rwanda-supported M23 rebel paramilitary group.
Additionally, in mid-February, the bodies of 70 Christians were found bound and beheaded inside a Baptist church in the eastern Lubero Territory of North Kivu – an action attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist rebel group.
North Kivu and South Kivu are home to six Baptist conventions, Lepamabila noted. Churches affiliated with those conventions have an estimated 2.4 million members, making Baptists the third-largest Christian group in the region, behind Roman Catholics and Pentecostals, he said. More Here
Sharing the Loaves and Fishes
Sharing the loaves and fishes,
You gave us an image of solidarity with the hungry, O Lord.
Sharing yourself in the bread and wine,
You called all to the table, O Lord.
Give me the hunger to be a part of the feeding
And the healing of this world.
Nourish me with your Grace,
So I may work with joy to serve your children.
Open my eyes and my heart
To recognize those in poverty
And increase my awareness
Of the structures and systems
That need to be changed
So we may all break bread together.
In your name we pray for the end of hunger.
– Education for Justice
