liberia: In the Mud, Liberia's Gentlest Rebels Pray for Peace

In a part of the world where one quickly becomes inured to the sight of scrawny, red-eyed, gun-toting teenage boys, there was an astonishing sight today along this capital's main road. In an empty field, in a heavy downpour in the middle of the rainy season in one of the world's wettest countries, was a small group of women, nearly all dressed in white, throwing their arms to the sky and dancing and singing, drenched from head to toe, calling to God to bring an end to war. These are Liberia's peaceniks - the Women in Peacebuilding Network - who for the last three months have been bent on praying on the side of the road, in sun and rain, every single day, to bring an end to war.