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Pray for the
Kachin ethnic hill tribe people of Northern Burma who have endured torture,
forced imprisonment, attacks on their villages, rape, forced labor, and the
deaths of loved ones, including the killing of children when their villages
were shelled by the Burma Army.
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Please keep close
in prayer the 1,284 Kachin people who fled Burma Army attacks in October. Pray
God will protect and provide for the children, youth, and adults of this
vulnerable ethnic group who are now in hiding and lack access to food, medical
care, and shelter. http://tinyurl.com/mkdhx9j
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Pray for a
15-year-old girl from Lu Htawng village who was gang raped by Burma Army
soldiers. Give thanks to God she was released and reunited with her parents.
Pray for her physical, emotional, and spiritual healing following this horrific
assault. Pray for justice for this young woman. Pray God will be at work in the
hearts of her attackers…that they will repent of their evil actions and suffer
the consequences of them.
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Pray for the 300
students at the Nam Lim Pa IDP (internally displaced people) school compound in
Kachin State who were held and threatened by Burma Army soldiers on November 16.
Pray for the 2,000 children, women, and men who fled Nam Lim Pa village and IDP
camp later that night when the Burma Army attacked. Please keep these
vulnerable people in prayer—half of the group was sent to another village, but
the other 1,000 are still hiding in the jungle. http://tinyurl.com/lgt2mfr
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Pray God will
provide for the four children and wife of Maraw Brang Na who was killed by
Burma Army soldiers on November 14. Pray for God’s comfort and peace for his
loved ones who are at an IDP camp in Bhamo now.
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Please pray for
peace in Burma. Pray for a change of heart in those who hold positions of
authority in Burma’s government and military.
Philippines
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Please continue
in prayer for the children, youth, and adults affected by Typhoon Haiyan, one
of the largest ever recorded. Pray for those on isolated islands who haven’t
been reached yet after the typhoon devastated the central part of the
Philippines. http://tinyurl.com/k8gd65w http://tinyurl.com/knxee9k
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Pray for the
estimated four million people who have been displaced by this massive disaster.
Please pray God will provide for children and families who don’t have access to
clean water, food, medical care, or shelter. Pray the humanitarian aid
coordination problems, the logistics, and the bottlenecks will be resolved
soon.
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Pray for the most
vulnerable and at-risk children in this disaster. Pray God will protect these
children from anyone who might take advantage of the chaos and confusion to
traffick or abuse them.
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Please keep in
prayer the loved ones and friends of the more than 3,900 people killed in
Typhoon Haiyan. Pray for those in communities where bodies decompose amidst the
rubble because there aren’t enough body bags or trucks or people to remove them.
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Pray for the
people of Tacloban, a city of 220,000 that was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. An
estimated 90% to 95% of the city was damaged with few buildings still standing
and no electricity or communications. Pray for children and families in this
regional capital who are without food or water. Pray for those in neighborhoods
that are cut off by debris. http://tinyurl.com/k8394cc
United States
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Please keep close
in prayer an 11-year-old boy who had been handcuffed to the porch of his foster
parents’ home. The boy was handcuffed to the porch rail by his ankle and a dead
chicken had been tied around his neck. Give thanks to God this child was found
by a deputy sheriff and removed, along with four other adopted children (ages
14, 13, 9, and 8), from his foster parents’ care. http://tinyurl.com/n4km4vs
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Pray all of these
children will be safe now they are in the custody of social services in another
county. Please pray God will bring healing and peace to the little boy and his foster
siblings.
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Pray God will be
at work in the hearts of the foster parents who have been accused of
intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury and false imprisonment. One of
the parents is an emergency room nurse and the other works as a county social
services supervisor.
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Please pray for
the safety and health of all children in foster care. Pray they will experience
God’s love through the love and care given them by those involved in the child
welfare system.
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Pray all those
desiring to foster children will enter into the commitment with the proper
intentions and skills to care for children who have experienced great loss or
woundedness in their lives.
