Brazil
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Give thanks to
God for the work of the staff and volunteers of Youth with a Mission (YWAM)
Belo Horizonte with street children, physically challenged children, slum
children, and children with HIV/AIDS. Pray for the approximately 90 staff
members who work in the eight children’s homes this ministry supports in Belo
Horizonte. Please pray for the children who are served in these homes…pray for
their healing and wholeness.
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Thanks be to God
the number of children living on the streets of Brazil’s major cities has gone
down drastically since the 1980s. http://tinyurl.com/cdoxdcb http://tinyurl.com/clm5o6r
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Pray for children
who are trapped in a cycle of poverty, addiction, and sexual exploitation. Please
pray for the 32 million Brazilians who go hungry on a daily basis and for the
65 million on the verge of poverty. Pray for the six million who are addicted to
either crack or cocaine. Pray for children and women who are trafficked into commercial
sexual exploitation. Pray for children who are at risk of being prostituted at
major athletic events that will be held in Brazil soon (Soccer World Cup in 2014
and Olympics in 2016).
Burma
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Continue to pray
for the ethnic hill tribe children and people of Burma who are facing new
threats because of increased economic activity in their country. As Burma’s
leaders make positive changes, governments around the world are beginning to
lift economic sanctions on this country. http://tinyurl.com/8v3fp5u
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While giving God
thanks for the positive changes in Burma, please ask God to protect farmers and
their families who are affected by the unscrupulous business practices of state
and private interests. Pray for those who have been forced off their land…who
have had it stolen by Burmese or foreign investors who rarely compensate these
families for their land.
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Please pray for
the children in these families. Many have left school because their parents
cannot afford to send them any longer or they are needed to make an income for
the family. Pray for girl children who are forced into prostitution to help
provide for their families.
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Pray for the
protection of farming families in rural Burma as the acquisition of land
becomes an even higher priority for investors. Pray for legal protection for
these vulnerable families from domestic and foreign companies intent upon
developing large-scale plantation-farming, pipelines, dams, and mines.
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Keep farmer
Maung’s 14-year-old daughter close in prayer as she makes a living for her
family through prostitution. Maung’s land was confiscated by two Chinese mining
companies and he was given no compensation. Pray for all families and children
facing this same bleak future.
Mali
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Please pray for
the people of northern Mali where extremists have imposed Islamic sharia law
and women and children seem to be targeted for abuse. A military coup in March
left a power vacuum enabling Tuareg rebels to take over nearly two-thirds of
Mali.
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Pray for children
who are sold into slavery because of the widespread poverty and instability in
this area. Pray for children whose families have accepted money so they would
become child soldiers. Pray for children who are forced to carry weapons and
make improvised explosive devices for rebel groups.
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Pray for women
who are sold into marriage and for those who are sold again and again as
prostitutes. Pray for pregnant women or unmarried women with children who are
being targeted by extremists intent on enforcing a strict version of sharia
law. http://tinyurl.com/8zdb8bg
Yemen
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Please keep the
children of Yemen in prayer as this country owns the dubious honor of having
the world’s third-highest rate of child malnutrition. The political revolt last
year and skyrocketing global prices for food and fuel have combined to wreak
havoc on Yemen’s economy and cause its youngest citizens to suffer greatly. Pray
for the 13 percent of Yemeni children who are now acutely malnourished because
of the country’s instability.
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Pray for the 10
million people in Yemen who go to bed hungry every night because they can’t
afford the high food prices or grow their own crops. Yemen has little arable
land on which to grow crops so it must import most of its food. http://tinyurl.com/8ljmpeo
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Pray for political
stability and security in this struggling country where conflict, terrorist
activity, population displacement, and food insecurity are causing such great
distress.
