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Congo Conflict Killing 45,000 Each Month

A new study says the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is killing around 45,000 people each month—half of them small children under the age of five. The International Rescue Committee says the war in the Congo is the deadliest conflict since the Second World War, with 5.4 million people killed over the past decade. The majority of deaths were attributed to preventable conditions worsened by the fighting, including infectious diseases, malnutrition and pregnancy-linked fatalities.

Source: Democracy Now, January 23, 2008

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Where's all that US government compassion about the horrors being inflicted upon the people of another country...?

And isn't the ongoing silence of the "Christian" churches in the US, fearful of losing their tax-exempt status, equally fascinating? Can you fathom Jesus mincing any words because the Word Of The Father must be tempered by the government's willingness to allow financial contributions to be tax deductible?

TLC