'Bring Back Our Girls' has not been forgotten

UPDATE: October 20, 2016
As of October 16, 2016; according to NBC News, 21 kidnapped Nigerian 'Chibok Girls' were reunited with their families, with more to be released in the near future.  Read the story and see the video HERE.  Continue to keep these missing girls in your prayers and trust God that they will not be marred, in any way, by their captors. #BringBackOurGirls.

First posted: 2014
Since April of 2014, the missing 200 school girls that were captured by Abubakar Shekau (leader of the Boko Haram and his goons), have not been released.  The “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign needs our continued prayers.

According to Ify Elueze through Change.org & CNN, the girls remain captive and have been converted to Islam and married off.  Nigeria said officials met with Boko Haram in Chad twice during talks mediated by Chadian President Idriss Deby.

The campaign was started back in May of this year when over 200 Nigerian girls were abducted from their boarding school and were reported to be sold as brides for $ 12 each.  Parents were frantic and needed assistance to “Bring Back Our Girls” from the hands of Boko Haram. 

On Friday, October 17, 2014, there has been an update from Ify Elueze, who started a campaign on April 25^th to solicit signatures for the governments to intercede in helping the girls to be returned home to their parents.  Ify started with 250 signatures and today Change.org has over 1,087,784 supporters.

On the report from CNN; Doyin Okupe, a government spokesman, did not specify when the girls would be freed.  He said not all would be let go at once, but a "significant number" would be released soon.  "A batch of them will be released shortly, and this will be followed by further actions from Boko Haram," he said. "It is a process. ... It is not a question of hours and days."  The Nigerian government consented to some demands by Boko Haram, but Okupe declined to provide details.  The government, he said, "is looking beyond the girls.  We want to end the insurgency in this country."  "On the war front," he added, "we can say there is peace now."

After the deal was announced, the aide said final negotiations on the girls' release would be completed at a meeting a week later in Chad.  That day has passed without any signs of the girls.  Where does that leave the situation?  Is the United States doing anything to intervene in this “Sex-trade” scenario?  As a nation, we need to believe that God will intervene in this and other situations.  God can set the captives free and give hope to the hopeless.  Continue to P.U.S.H.