Burma
- Please pray for the ethnic hill tribe children and people of Burma who suffer such persecution at the hands of the Burma Army and government. Pray for the leaders of this country—that God might be at work in their lives in strong and powerful ways. Pray for a change of heart in this leadership—that they will recognize the sovereignty of God and surrender to God.
- Pray for all of those working on behalf of the ethnic hill tribe children and people of Burma, and especially for those with Free Burma Rangers and Partners Relief and Development. (http://www.freeburmarangers.
org/ http://partnersworld.org/usa/)
Burma, China
- Pray for women and girls who are regularly trafficked across Burma’s porous border into China’s southwestern Yunnan province and forced into marriages with Chinese men. Pray for babies who are smuggled into China and then sold. Pray for Chinese women and girls from who are trafficked through Burma into the Southeast Asia sex industry. China has become a source country, a destination country, and a transit country when it comes to human trafficking.http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2009/ 12/25/AR2009122501841.html - Give thanks to God for cooperative efforts between the governments of China and Burma in stopping the flow of human trafficking. Recently, two criminal gangs were cracked and 14 women rescued.
Iraq
- Please pray for Iraq’s estimated 740,000 war widows and for their children who are also very vulnerable. Pray for those who have no support system and live in public parks or gas station restrooms with their children.
- Pray for war widows coerced into “temporary marriages” that can last from hours to years and are often based on sex. Pray for those who have entered prostitution or joined the insurgency to receive a steady wage. Pray for those who are recruited as suicide bombers.
- Pray that war widows and their children will receive the support they desperately need without the strings of blackmail or coercion attached. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
02/23/world/middleeast/ 23widows.html?_r=1
Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya
- Please keep the children of Somalia held close in prayer as an estimated 1.8 million are affected by hunger and severe food insecurity. Pray that undernourished children will be provided for at therapeutic feeding centers around the country. Pray that God will provide the resources needed to supply these centers.
- Pray for the 5 million children under age five who are affected by food insecurity in six countries around the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, parts of Uganda, and Kenya. Pray for the half million children under five years of age in this region who suffer from life-threatening, acute malnutrition.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Syria
- Please keep in prayer the children of Iraqi refugees who must work to help their families. Pray for families who have no savings left and are forced to send everyone—mothers, daughters, sons—out to work.
- Pray for the refugee children who are unable to attend school because they must help support their families. Pray for girls who are forced into early marriages as a result of this economic hardship. A survey by IPSOS market research agency estimated that 10 percent of school-age Iraqi children in Syria are working. http://www.alertnet.org/
thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/ d53909ae7afc9724ee1df418f407bb 21.htm
United States
- Give thanks to God for 15-year-old Peter Larson’s compassionate heart for those who are homeless! Peter sleeps outside for 40 nights every year (he lives in Minnesota) to help raise awareness of and funds for homeless families. Thanks be to God for the success of his efforts—throughout the ten years Peter has been doing this, he’s raised about $185,000 to help families in need. http://www.americanprofile.
com/article/37205.html
Faces of Children
- Please continue to pray that more churches and individuals will join with the ministry of Faces of Children in the coming New Year, spread awareness about children in crisis, and invite more people to pray for children at risk.
