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No Knitting for Me!

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Why don’t they include a ‘Warning: Speaking to Jan could change your life’ statement on the Flame literature?

Packed into a minibus in stifling heat, weaving left and right to avoid enormous potholes in the dirt road, surrounded by strangers…

From the Jaws of Hell

Friday, September 18th, 2009

It was hard to imagine what James had been through since being snatched from his family by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).  How could a 12 year old boy recover from the trauma of being forced to execute two other…

Betty with Bullets

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

I met Betty Jokodi, aged about 7 or 8, in the Lokurabang camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) on the outskirts of the Southern Sudanese town of Lainya, in May 2009.  Her grandfather pastors a church in the midst of…