Columbia
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Please pray for
girls and boys who have been lured by false promises into Colombia’s largest rebel
group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This formerly
agrarian movement is now heavily involved in cocaine trafficking, kidnapping,
and extortion. Pray for poor girls and young women who are easy targets for
recruitment into the FARC because of high levels of sexual abuse and domestic
violence in their home lives.
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Pray for women
and girls in the FARC who have had their newborn babies taken away from them and
then killed. Pray for girls and women who’ve experienced forced miscarriages.
Having babies is forbidden in the FARC.
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Pray for girls who
are forced to serve as sex slaves for commanders and for those who must fight
on the frontlines. Pray for those who have to prepare and serve meals, haul
firewood, stand guard, dig trenches and latrines, gather intelligence, and
recruit other children to fight.
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Give thanks to
God for the government program that helps former rebels reintegrate into
civilian life. Pray for former child soldiers who experienced great cruelty
while in the FARC.
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Pray for an end
to this 50-year-old war between the FARC and the Columbian military. Pray the
peace talks in Havana will bear fruit and end this conflict in which 220,000
people have been killed and almost 5 million displaced. http://tinyurl.com/lv7fedf
Haiti
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Please continue
to pray for the 170,000 children, youth, and adults of Haiti who are still
homeless four years after a massive earthquake rocked this impoverished
country. Pray for those living in approximately 300 temporary tent settlements in
and around Port-au-Prince where they have little or no access to safe drinking
water or toilets.
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Pray for children
who have become ill with a water-borne disease (like cholera) and for those at
risk of getting one because of the poor sanitation in these settlements. Pray
for children and families living in flimsy shelters in these makeshift camps as
they are very vulnerable to flooding during the hurricane season.
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Please pray for
the estimated 78,000 homeless Haitians who are at great risk of being forcibly
evicted from the tent settlements in which they are living because land owners want
to reclaim their land. Pray for those who have been forced out of their
temporary shelters and have no other options available to them.
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Give God thanks
for a rental subsidy program that’s helped more than 55,000 people relocate
from the tent settlements into housing of their choice. Pray government and
international aid agencies’ programs that help homeless families move into safe
housing will overcome the challenges posed by corruption, political
uncertainty, poor coordination, land tenure problems, and a cholera epidemic. http://tinyurl.com/o8czguw
Tonga
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Keep in prayer
the children and people of the South Pacific island nation of Tonga who were
affected by Cyclone Ian. This category five tropical storm destroyed an
estimated 90 percent of the homes on the northern Ha’apai Islands chain. http://tinyurl.com/pv6p7qk http://tinyurl.com/o53u2by
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Pray for those on
the Ha’apai outer islands of Foa, Ha’ano, and Mo’unga’one where there was 90
percent destruction. And pray for those in Pangai, the capital of Ha’apai,
where there was about 80 percent destruction.
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Please pray
emergency relief teams will reach everyone in need on these northern islands.
Pray God will provide those affected by this massive storm with the resources
they need to make shelters and begin again. Pray they will have access to safe
water as most homes relied on rooftop water collection systems which were probably
destroyed in the cyclone.
United States
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Please keep
17-year-old Kailey close in prayer during a difficult season in her life.
Kailey is struggling in high school with classes and friendships. Pray she will
seek comfort from God in this challenging time in her life.
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Continue to pray
for 14-year-old Dallas who recently ran away from home with his mother’s
37-year-old “boyfriend” who has a criminal record. Give God thanks this man
turned himself into police…he didn’t want to be arrested on charges of
kidnapping. http://tinyurl.com/p5jp5dg
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Pray Dallas will
come out of hiding and seek help. He’s thought to be staying with friends and
Dallas’ mother believes her boyfriend may have introduced Dallas to drugs.
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Please pray for
this family as they continue to struggle with the consequences of poor life
choices. Pray Betty can maintain her sobriety throughout this challenging
season.
