Belize
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Give thanks to
God that 8-month-old Kennet was released from the hospital in Belize and is
doing much better. Please pray for his continued healing. Pray for Kennet’s
parents and family members as they care for him.
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Please keep in
prayer two siblings, a 9-year-old and a 12-year-old, who have disappeared with
their mother Gris. Pray for their safety as their mother seems to be
experiencing severe mental health issues. Pray she will return to her family
home with the children. Pray for Gris’ family and friends who are very anxious
about her and the children.
Burma
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Continue to pray
for Burma’s Kachin ethnic hill tribe people who are being attacked by Burma
Army troops despite a presidential order for a cease fire. Intense fighting was
reported in late January 2013 in Kachin State near Burma’s border with China. http://tinyurl.com/aaf8mjn
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Pray for those
who have lost loved ones in the missile attacks and aerial bombings. Pray for children,
young people, and adults who’ve been wounded in the attacks. http://tinyurl.com/bvf6pob (This Free
Burma Rangers report does include some disturbing images.)
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Pray for the tens
of thousands of children and families that have been displaced by almost two
years of fighting in this region. Give thanks to God for the work of Free Burma
Rangers in helping the injured and displaced.
·
Please pray for
an end to the violence in Burma. Pray for peace throughout this country.
Ethiopia, Kenya
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Please keep in
prayer children receiving treatment at the CURE International Hospitals in
Ethiopia and in Kenya. Pray God will meet the physical, emotional, and
spiritual needs of a 15-year-old boy named Abebe in Ethiopia and of two
14-year-old girls, Rebecca and Emelewi in Kenya. www.helpcurenow.org.
Syria
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Pray for the
estimated four million Syrians who are in urgent need of humanitarian
assistance. Lift in prayer the one million who are going hungry because aid
agencies are unable to enter conflict zones. Pray for children who don’t have
enough to eat… for children whose health and growth is compromised because they
aren’t getting enough food. http://tinyurl.com/a9bm7j5
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Pray for a change
of heart within the Syrian government that would allow additional aid agencies
into the country to help those in need. The government has only approved a few
aid agencies to be in Syria and the resources of these organizations are
stretched to the limit.
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Please pray for
an end to this conflict… for a lasting peace agreement, healing, and
reconciliation in Syria.
United States
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Give praise to
God for answering prayers about 3-year-old Lily Grace who was able to return
home after spending almost a month in a children’s hospital in her home town.
Lily recently went through a delicate heart procedure in which a hole was
created in her heart to relieve the pressure on it. Thanks be to God for the
medical miracle Lily has experienced…after doctors removed her chest tubes,
Lily’s lungs started to improve on their own and she was able to get off of oxygen.
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Pray this little
one will become more interested in eating now that she is home... she was only
able to eat ice chips during her lengthy hospital stay and received nourishment
through a feeding tube. When Lily was released from the hospital, she weighed
the same amount she did eight months ago when her adoptive parents brought her
to the U.S. from China, except she has grown eight inches in that time.
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Continue to pray
for Lily’s parents and siblings as they help care for her at home. Thanks be to
God for their desire to open their hearts and homes to this little one who was
abandoned at birth in China and suffers from such a rare heart condition that
doctors there considered her case to be terminal. http://www.rancourtfamily.blogspot.com/2013/02/home.html
Faces of Children
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Give thanks to
God for the life of A. J. Cain, the father of Faces of Children prayer partners
Diane Warner and Chris Laufer, who died on Sunday, February 3, 2013. http://tinyurl.com/b2fyp9s
