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International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression – 4 June

The UN advocacy campaign ACT to Protect Children Affected by Conflict launched on 2 April 2019 until the end of 2022. Is a call for action and commitments to strengthen the protection of children affected by armed conflict and ultimately end and prevent the six grave violation against children (Killing and maiming of children;
Recruitment or use of children as soldiers; Sexual violence against children; Abduction of children; Attacks against schools or hospitals; Denial of humanitarian access for children.

We invite you to reflection with these words:

Who will save the children?

by Randy Stonehill

Cry for all the innocent ones

Born into a world

That’s lost its heart

For those who never

Learn to dream

Because their hope is crushed

Before they can start

And we shake our fists

At the air

And say, “If God is love,

How can this be fair?”

But we are His hands

We are His voice

We are the ones who must

Make the choice

And if it isn’t now

Tell me when?

If it isn’t you, then tell me

Who will save the children?

Who will save the children?

 

We count our blessings one by one

Yet we have forgotten how to give

It seems that we don’t want to face

All the hungry and homeless

Who struggle to live

But heaven is watching tonight

Tugging at our hearts

To do what’s right

And we are His hands

We are His voice

We are the ones who must

Make the choice

And if it isn’t you, then tell me

Who will save the children?

Who will save the children?

 

As we observe them through our TV screens

They seem so distant and unreal

But they bleed like we bleed

And they feel what we feel

Oh, save the children

Save the children

Save the children

 

Now we decide that nothing can change

And throw up our hands in numb despair

And we lost a piece of our souls

By teaching ourselves just

How not to care

But Christ would have gone to the cross

Just to save one child from being lost

 

And we are His hands

We are His voice

We are the ones who must

Make the choice

And it must be now

There’s no time to waste

It must be you

No one can take your place

Can’t you see that only we

Can save the children

Save the children

Save the children

Please, save the children