Pakistan
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Give God thanks
for answering prayer about 11-year-old Rimshah Masih who was recently released
from a Pakistani prison where she had been jailed for three weeks on charges of
blasphemy. Pray Rimshah (who has Down’s
syndrome) and her family will be safe from further persecution now that
she is out of prison.
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Pray the truth
will come to light and that Rimshah will receive justice. Rimshah, whose family
is Christian, was accused of burning pages from the Koran by neighbors in her
predominately Muslim neighborhood.
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Pray for those
who accused this mentally disabled girl of blasphemy.
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Pray for the Christian community in Rimshah’s neighborhood. Because of
this blasphemy charge and arrest, the 600 Pakistani Christians in this
neighborhood, including Rimshah’s family, were forced to leave. Pray God will
provide a new community for these families in which they will be able to
worship God in peace, go to school, and work in jobs that pay a living
wage.
United States
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Thanks be to God
for continuing to answer prayer about 3-year-old Landon who recently had
surgery for tethered spinal cord syndrome, a neurological disorder where the
movement of the spinal cord within the spinal column is limited. http://tinyurl.com/cblzvp
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Praise God the
severe headaches, high fevers, and vomiting Landon was experiencing after the
surgery have gone away and that he was able to leave the hospital.
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Pray for his
continued healing and pray for his parents and siblings who are very weary from
the experience. http://tinyurl.com/9gtljpu
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Pray for all
children who have been hospitalized for illness or treatment. Pray they receive
competent and compassionate medical care while they are in the hospital. Pray
for the medical and hospital staff these children encounter every day. And keep
the parents of hospitalized children held close in prayer as they make
decisions about medical care and deal with the high costs of that care.
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Please pray for homeless
families who are turned away from shelters because they are too full. Pray for
parents and children who end up sleeping in cars, parks, and bus and train stations
because local shelters can’t take them.
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Pray for families
facing homelessness—many are still reeling from the effects of the economic
crisis in the U.S. or from the lack of affordable housing.
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Pray for the
young family—a mother and her toddler and 2-month-old baby—who were sleeping in
a metro train station because there wasn’t room in the local homeless shelter
for families. Give thanks to God a Good Samaritan provided this struggling
family with temporary housing and assistance in finding a more permanent
situation. http://tinyurl.com/9ywyrpm
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Pray for the
young family—a mother and her three children—who slept on the steps of a church
in the Washington, D.C. area because they had nowhere else to go.
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Please keep in
prayer three young children who were found living in a garage without running
water. The home to which the garage was attached and where the children would
bath was filled with dozens of animals (50 cats, five dogs, chickens, birds,
rabbits, ducks, geese, and a snake) and reeked of urine and feces.
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Pray for these
children—two girls, 3 and 4 years old, and a 7-year-old boy—who lived in such
an unsafe, unsanitary environment.
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Pray for their
father/step-father who was arrested on charges of child neglect.
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Please pray the
children will grow up in a safer, healthier living situation where they will be
given the love and attention every child deserves. http://tinyurl.com/8u3cxzu
Faces of Children
- Give God thanks for the opportunity to share the ministry of Faces of Children at the Yukon Presbytery Fall Gathering of Presbyterian Women in Anchorage, Alaska recently.
- Please continue to pray that more churches and individuals will join with the ministry of Faces of Children in spreading awareness about children in crisis and inviting more people to pray for children at risk.
