Canada, United States, Australia, Germany, Romania, Ukraine,
Spain, Mexico, Norway, Greece, and others
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Give thanks to
God for the rescue of 386 children, some as young as 5 years old, who had been
exploited by adults in the child pornography industry. Please pray for the
emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual healing of each child harmed in this
horrific form of child sexual abuse. Pray God will provide them with safe
places in which to recover. Pray they will be surrounded by compassionate
people experienced in caring for child survivors of commercial sexual abuse. http://tinyurl.com/loahjw9 http://tinyurl.com/kz4bn7h
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Please pray for
the police and Interpol officers involved in this international operation that
spanned more than 50 countries over a three year period. Pray for the law
enforcement officers who had to go through hundreds of thousands of videos
depicting the appalling sexual abuse of children. Pray God will guard their
hearts and minds against despair, hopelessness, or indifference.
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Thanks be to God
for the arrest of 348 people in Canada, the United States, Australia, and other
countries around the world in what Toronto police call one of the largest
international child pornography busts they’ve ever seen. Pray God will bring
healing to these alleged perpetrators—some are school teachers, doctors, and
actors. Pray they will understand and be held accountable for their role in the
abuse and degradation of these children.
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Give God thanks
for the arrest of Brian Way, a Toronto man accused of instructing people around
the world to make pornographic videos of children and then distributing them to
international customers via his company.
Children and Water Issues
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Pray all children
and families throughout the world will have readily accessible, safe drinking
water. Pray they will also have access to sanitary facilities in their
communities. Open defecation is a main cause of diarrhea, a disease that causes
children to lose 272 million school days every year. http://tinyurl.com/kue35l7
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Pray for children
who spend their days hauling water for their families and aren’t able to study
or even attend school. Pray for girl children and women, often the main water
providers in many communities around the world, who walk miles to fetch water
for their homes.
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Please keep in
prayer girls who drop out of school because of a lack of toilets designated
specifically for females and their monthly requirements.
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Pray for the 57
million children worldwide, a large portion of whom are girls, who do not
attend school. Pray for the one in five primary-school-aged girls who isn’t in
school. Pray the causes that keep them from attending school—a lack of fresh
water and sanitation, hygiene in general—will be resolved in each country that
struggles with this issue.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
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Give God thanks
for the new technologies being developed to help stop online child sexual abuse
and webcam child sex tourism. http://tinyurl.com/qys6tgq http://tinyurl.com/m2sscdr
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Thanks be to God
for the zero-tolerance policies towards online child abuse content at Google,
Yahoo, Microsoft, and YouTube.
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Pray for the 200
team members with Google who are working to clean up Google Search and prevent
links to child sexual abuse images from appearing in search results.
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Pray for the
governance and safety teams with Yahoo as they work with Microsoft to prevent
search results from leading to child abuse images, videos, or abuse-related
file sharing sites.
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Give thanks to
God for the new technology YouTube engineers have created that is able to
identify videos made by pedophiles.
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And thanks be to
God for the United Kingdom and United States joint transatlantic taskforce that
is working to target criminals and pedophiles who use secret encrypted networks
to distribute child abuse material.
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Give praise to
God for the innovative software developed to track pedophiles who sexually
abuse children via webcam. Over 1,000 perpetrators were tracked in just two
months using a very lifelike, computer-animated “10-year-old girl” as a decoy. http://tinyurl.com/qys6tgq
United States
·
Please keep close
in prayer 5-year-old George who is undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma at
Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Pray God will bring complete healing to
George. Pray for his parents, Clayton and Katherine, as they make difficult
decisions about George’s medical care.
