Bring Back Our Girls: Praying for Nigeria's Stolen Girls
The world is outraged. I am outraged. Twitter and other social media outlets are ablaze with #Bringbackourgirls hashtags. On April 15*, the day we Americans were consumed with getting our taxes mailed out, more than 300 teenage girls were abducted from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria. Today, it's been reported that 8 more girls have been kidnapped. Like me, you may have wondered how so many girls could have been abducted at one time. According to USA Today , one of the reported 53 girls that escaped stated that the schoolgirls heard gunshots from a nearby town. Uniformed men posing as members of the Nigerian military arrived at the school, instructing the girls to go outside. These impostors were the kidnappers, members of an Islamic militant group named Boko Haram, which means "western education is a sin". Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted to the abductions on video and declared the girls slaves. Accor...