As coup leaders went live on TV, one church began to pray

Benin (MNN) — On Sunday, December 7, there was an attempted coup in Benin, West Africa. At first, citizen Virgile Ouendo thought the coup had succeeded —as did many others. Ouendo serves as the national director of Media Evangelique du Benin (MEB), a partner of Trans World Radio. He was in church when he heard shouts outside and picked up his phone to see if something had happened. “I saw a picture of the military men who were performing the coup,” Ouendo says. “When the military went on the nat