Turkey
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Continue to pray
for the children and people of Syria who have fled to Turkey to escape the
civil war in their home country. Pray for the estimated 140,000 refugees living
in 13 Turkish government-run camps that are now too full to take in any more
refugees.
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Pray for the
thousands of Syrian refugees who entered Turkey illegally as they are now
unable to go to camps set up for registered refugees and receive humanitarian
aid.
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Give thanks to
God for the generosity of Turkish villagers who have taken in refugees from
Syria who don’t have access to aid in the camps. Thank God for the villagers of
Davutpasa who have taken in about 400 Syrians and provided them with shelter
and food. Pray God will provide for the refugee children and their families as
their hosts have very little resources themselves. http://tinyurl.com/b2zunt2
United States, Russia
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Please keep in
prayer the Thomas family from Minnesota as they are caught up in a difficult
adoption situation. John and Renee have been working on adopting the younger
biological brother of their son Jack, but Russia’s new adoption law banning
Americans from adopting Russian children has halted the process. Pray for
4-year-old Nikoly who remains in a Russian orphanage and cannot join his
brother in the U.S. http://tinyurl.com/anul8g7
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Pray for the
Smith family from Arizona who traveled to Russia to meet a 5-year-old little
boy they hoped to adopt. Pray for this little boy who has cerebral palsy and who
has been left in limbo by the adoption ban. http://tinyurl.com/blh3v4c
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Pray for all
Russian orphans and the 1,500 U.S. families who are caught up in this adoption
ban. Pray for children and adoptive parents who have met and bonded only to be
kept from forming “forever families” because of the ban. Pray for the 740,000
children who aren’t in parental custody in Russia and whose prospects for
adoption are more uncertain now.
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Give thanks to
God for the courage of the estimated 20,000 Russians who took part in a
demonstration to protest the new law banning Americans from adopting Russian
children. Opponents of the ban argue it victimizes children in order to make a
political point.
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Pray for a change
of heart within the Russian government about this ban that was adopted in
retaliation for a new U.S. law that targeted Russians accused of human rights
abuses. Russia’s adoption ban was also a result of the focus its leaders placed
on the 19 adopted Russian children who died over a 20 year period while in the
custody of their American adoptive parents. http://tinyurl.com/ctlftho
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Give God thanks
that an estimated 60,000 Russian children have found “forever homes” with
American families over the past two decades.
United States
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Please pray for
children who have type 2 diabetes, a chronic disease in which the body doesn’t
produce enough insulin or the cells in the body ignore the insulin. Pray for an
end to the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in children. More than a decade ago,
pediatricians began seeing a disturbing increase in the number of children with
this chronic disease, particularly in minority and low-income children. http://tinyurl.com/72jkb5z
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Give thanks to God for the work of Dr. Barbara Linder and the studies she
has coordinated that have discovered ways to reduce the risk of children
developing type 2 diabetes and the most effective treatment strategies for
children and youth with type 2 diabetes. http://tinyurl.com/bxtwyxa
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Continue to keep
in prayer 16-year-old Andrew and his 12-year-old sister Rachel who both have
type 1 diabetes. In people with type 1 diabetes, the pancreas (the organ that
produces insulin) is destroyed by auto-antibodies so they must have insulin
injections every day. Pray Rachel’s blood sugar levels will even out so she
will feel better. Pray for their parents as they provide the day-to-day care
this disease requires and deal with the psychological, emotional, and social
challenges it presents. http://tinyurl.com/a8vkde
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Pray for all
children who struggle with type 1 diabetes. Pray for a cure for this disease
and give thanks to God for the medical advances being made to help children and
teenagers with type 1 diabetes. http://tinyurl.com/9y9rvae
Faces of Children
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Please pray for
Clay, the nephew of a Faces of Children prayer partner, who has a rare genetic
disorder called Hunter syndrome and who has been experiencing frequent grand
mal seizures. http://tinyurl.com/4px2qx
