Pakistan, United Kingdom
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Give thanks to
God for 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai and the courage she continues to display,
even in the face of further threats from the Taliban. Despite the grave injury
she received after being shot in the head last year by a Taliban gunman, Malala
continues to promote education for girls and boys in Pakistan. Thanks be to God
Malala received life-saving medical care in London and continues to grow
stronger while living there with her family. http://tinyurl.com/l3qfe7e
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Give God thanks
for Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination—she is the youngest person ever
nominated for this honor. Please pray for Malala’s safety and protection from
radical Islamists who feel threatened by this young woman’s outspokenness and
the attention she has drawn to the problems women and children face in
Pakistan.
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey
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Please continue
to pray for the children of Syria as the civil war in their country rages. Pray
for the estimated 5,000 people (1,000 families) who have been displaced by
recent attacks on their villages in a mountainous region bordering Lebanon.
Pray for these families who fled into neighboring Lebanon following assaults by
the Syrian army. http://tinyurl.com/l4xrlbg
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Pray God will
provide for these displaced children and families who are without proper
shelter to protect them from the cold. Pray for the residents of the Lebanese
community into which these refugees have fled. There are already 30,000 Syrians
who have sought refuge there and the community lacks the capacity to provide
for more.
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Please continue
to keep in prayer the 2.2 million Syrians who have escaped the civil war and
are struggling to provide for themselves and their families.
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Pray for the
governments and people of Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey as they deal with the
massive influx of Syrian refugees into their countries. Please pray all those
who work with refugees will be filled with compassion and mercy for them.
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Continue to pray
for peace and reconciliation in Syria.
United Kingdom
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Keep in prayer
girls, most of them from South Asian communities, who are forced into early
marriages in the United Kingdom. An estimated 400 school girls are forced into
marriage every year in the UK, according to British TV network ITV. http://tinyurl.com/m5eggvs
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Thanks be to God for
the Muslim clerics in two-thirds of Britain’s 56 mosques who refused to perform
child marriages and found the request offensive when asked by undercover
reporters with ITV. Pray for imams who didn’t find the request repugnant and
agreed to perform Islamic marriage ceremonies, even when the girls were
unwilling. Pray God will be at work in the hearts of those who don’t have a
problem with this form of child abuse and enslavement.
United States
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Thanks be to God
for the compassion of a generous community in providing a superhero wish come
true for 5-year-old Miles who has battled leukemia for most of his short life.
Miles’ Make-A-Wish to be Batkid came true recently in the San Francisco Bay
area with at least 12,000 citizens on hand to cheer him on. Give God thanks
that Miles’ cancer is in remission now. http://tinyurl.com/qybv9k2
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Please keep close
in prayer children who are prostituted by criminal gangs in what is becoming a
more profitable method of making money for them than dealing in drugs or
weapons. U.S. gangs are discovering that selling a child’s body over and over
earns more money than selling drugs. Pray for children at great risk of being
trafficked… runaways, those from abusive homes, those with addictions. http://tinyurl.com/lg4rntx
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Thanks be to God
for the recent arrests and prosecutions of several criminal gang leaders who
profited from juvenile sex trafficking. Pray this trend of drug gangs
trafficking children for commercial sexual exploitation purposes will stop.
Faces of Children
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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.
