Here's a powerful audio visual summary of several years of turmoil in Congo's recent history of struggling for peace.

(Warning, I wouldn't watch this with kids, until you've seen it and can decide for yourself whether it's appropriate.)

Seeing and hearing about such difficult, prolonged struggles, one of my responses is honest prayer to God.

Why, God, are we who are made in your image also capable of the evil things we do to one another? How can we become so blind and so desperate that we do unthinkable acts? Why do we so often abuse power when we have it? Why are we so selfish? Why are we indifferent? Why do we intervene in areas we should not, and refrain from intervention that would seem to be just and righteous?