Women and children cut to pieces please say a prayer

Scores killed in machete attack on Congolese churchgoers
Ugandan rebels hacked Catholics to death in Boxing Day rampage
By Godfrey Olukya in Kampala
Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Attackers hacked to death scores of people at a Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Boxing Day. The Ugandan army and a rebel group have accused each other of carrying out the massacre.

The United Nations said that 189 people were killed in three villages over two days, 89 of them at the village of Doruma, where the church is located. The killings occurred close to the DRC's border with Sudan, in a remote area in the east, near to where the armies of those two countries and Uganda began an offensive this month to root out the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.

"The scene at the church was unbelievable. It was horrendous. On the floor were dead bodies of mostly women and children cut in pieces," said Captain Chris Magezi, a Ugandan army spokesman. He blamed the Lord's Resistance Army for the massacre and quoted witnesses as saying the rebels used machetes, clubs and swords.

[link to www.independent.co.uk]

Please say a prayer for people all around the world. Our positive intentions do make a difference when they are coming from a pure heart.

Lords Prayer, from the original Aramaic

Translation by Neil Douglas-Klotz in Prayers of the Cosmos

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos

Focus your light within us - make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now-

through our fiery hearts and willing hands

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

Animate the earth within us: we then

feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.

Untangle the knots within

so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.

Don't let surface things delude us,

But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.

Out of you, the astonishing fire,

Returning light and sound to the cosmos.

Amen.

Lotus