Angola, Lesotho, Malawi,
Zimbabwe
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Please keep the children and people of southern Africa held close in
prayer as they face severe food shortages because of repeated cycles of
flooding and drought that has destroyed crops, livestock, and safe drinking
water supplies. http://tinyurl.com/cc66x8r
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Pray for the estimated six million people in Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, and
Zimbabwe who are at risk of hunger because of this chronic crisis. In some
areas across this region, child malnutrition rates have increased 50 percent
more than last year.
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Pray for children who have contracted malaria, cholera, or diarrhea
because of floodwater-contaminated water sources. Pray God will provide them
with the resources and aid they so desperately need now.
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Please pray for a coordinated effort between humanitarian aid agencies,
governments, and businesses to help relieve the suffering of so many children
and people in southern Africa.
Burma
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Continue to keep
the ethnic hill tribe children and people of Burma held close in prayer as they
deal with additional abuses, predominately by the Burma Army. Pray for those in
Burma’s Karen state who are being forcibly displaced from their communities by companies,
corrupt government officials, or armed groups who desire the villagers’ property
for mining, logging, development of hydropower dams, infrastructure
development, or commercial agriculture. http://tinyurl.com/b3mvd9e
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Pray for the
displaced in communities that were given little or no advance notice or
compensation for the confiscation of their land. Please pray for those who have
had their land taken illegally and are now deprived of their livelihoods.
Seventy percent of Burma’s 60 million people are dependent on agriculture to
make a living.
Sudan
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Please keep in
prayer the estimated 100,000 people who have been displaced by inter-tribal
fighting in Sudan’s North Darfur area. Pray for children who have been uprooted
by the fighting between two Arab tribes over access to a gold mine. Pray for
those whose homes, villages, and crops have been burned in this conflict. Pray
that humanitarian aid will reach those who lack clean water, sufficient food,
medical care, shelter, and sanitary facilities. Pray for an end to this
violence.http://tinyurl.com/b4sbvcq
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Please also pray
for an end to the ongoing conflict between non-Arab insurgents and the
Arab-dominated government that began in 2003 and still continues 10 years
later. Continue to pray for the estimated 1.5 million people who have been
displaced by this violence across Darfur and live in camps where they are
dependent on food aid to survive.
United States
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Pray for children
and families who are experiencing homelessness in the U.S. and around the
world. Pray for those who live in cars, with friends or other family members,
in homeless shelters, and on the streets.
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Please keep in
prayer children who live in crowded shelters that lack the privacy and security
of a permanent home. Pray for those who find it difficult to sleep, study,
play, or bathe in facilities that are overcrowded and underfunded. Pray every
child has the opportunity to live in a permanent, safe home. http://tinyurl.com/bytvvf5
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Give God thanks
for those who advocate for and work towards finding affordable housing for the
most vulnerable in their communities.
Faces of Children
- Please keep Faces of Children prayer partner Paula close in prayer as she mourns the death of her husband Frank this past January. Pray God will continue to comfort and sustain Paula and her family during this season of loss.
- Give God thanks and praise for the recent wedding of Faces of Children intercessor Diana to her new husband Glenn.
- Pray for the family of Faces of Children prayer partner Georgia Jackson who died recently. Thanks be to God for the faithfulness of this woman of prayer!
