Today is not a good day to be picking up food from a food pantry, or receiving a meal from a soup kitchen. Due to the increasing cost of food, more and more people who need assistance, and less government donations, food pantries and soup kitchens across the United States are facing a crisis.
“This is as bare as I have ever seen the shelves,” said Melissa Travis in a press release on the People's Resource Center web site.
Two decades of violence have drenched Uganda in blood. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have captured children, forced them to become soldiers, and brainwashed them with terrible lies. They define training as killing another child, murdering those who refuse to comply. They rub shea nut oil on the children’s skin, and say the bullets will bounce off.
I read something disturbing today. The U.S. senate proposed to split Iraq into territories according to religious and ethnic divisions. The Kurds, who pretty much run a virtually independent government within Iraq anyways, would receive the northern territories that they already govern. The Shiites and the Kurds would receive oil-rich territories.
