Democratic Republic of Congo
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Keep the children
and people affected by fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic
of Congo held close in prayer. Pray for the 800,000 people who have been
displaced from their homes and now live in unofficial camps where they don’t
have access to humanitarian aid. http://tinyurl.com/cagwkfe
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Pray for children
who don’t have a safe place to live, enough food to eat, clean water to drink,
access to medical care, or an opportunity to go to school. Only one in nine
people displaced by this fighting in North Kivu province live in an official
IDP (internally displaced person) camp where aid is distributed regularly.
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Please pray for
the safety of girls and women in the informal as well as official camps.
Security for females in these camps is very poor.
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Give thanks to
God that the International Organization of Migration (IOM) is taking on the
task of coordinating humanitarian aid to these informal IDP camps. Pray aid is
distributed to the neediest children.
Sudan
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Give God thanks
for the major breakthrough in getting food aid to displaced people in Sudan’s
war-torn Blue Nile state. The government had refused to allow the United
Nations to deliver emergency assistance to this area until just recently. Pray
for children in this region where malnutrition rates for those under age five
are extremely high.
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Continue to pray
for peace between the Sudanese army and rebel militias who have been fighting
for more than a year and a half. http://tinyurl.com/c8sxdbf
United Kingdom, Scotland
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Pray for young
people and children who are trafficked into Scotland to work as sex slaves or
domestic servants, tend illegal marijuana factories as forced labor, or to work
in organized crime syndicates. Pray for the safety of these young victims who
come from Asia, Africa, or Eastern Europe. http://tinyurl.com/bt6ayka
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Give God thanks
for the change in the way police view and treat trafficking victims... that
children, young people, and adult trafficking victims will no longer be treated
like criminals.
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Pray law
enforcement officers will be able to identify victims of trafficking and assist
them in finding the help and support they need.
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Please pray for
trafficking victims who are held in Scottish prisons…there are more victims
imprisoned than traffickers. Pray for justice for these victims and those who
trafficked them into slavery.
United States
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Give thanks to
God for the youth of First Presbyterian Church, Norman, Oklahoma, and their
Youth Pastor Abby Walker. Pray God will sustain Abby in her work with these
young people and that they will continue to grow in faith under her leadership
and guidance.
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Keep in prayer
the thousands of young girls across the United States who submit photos of
themselves to online beauty pageants on social media sites where they are
judged based on their appearance.
o
Pray for the
safety of those who make themselves vulnerable to adult strangers by failing to
keep their identities and locations private on social media sites like
Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
o
Pray for young
girls, some as young as 12 or 13, who are vulnerable to verbal attacks or
hateful comments about their appearance, especially at a sensitive period of
their development, by others on the social media site. http://tinyurl.com/dy34hop
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Pray for parents
who struggle to keep up with, understand, or monitor the fast-paced changes in
technology and social media their daughters and sons use with ease and
regularity.
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Continue to keep close
in prayer the children and youth living on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North
Dakota. Pray for their safety and protection from physical, emotional, and
sexual abuse. Please pray for strong, courageous leaders to come forward in the
tribe to protect the children living on this reservation. http://tinyurl.com/bv2lkoa
Faces of Children
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Please keep Faces
of Children prayer partner Eugenia held close in prayer as she waits for the
results of recent medical tests. Pray for God’s healing touch to be upon her as
she recovers from surgery. Pray for a community of support and love to surround
Eugenia and her family during this difficult time.
