China
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Please pray God’s
healing mercies will be upon three little girls at New Day North foster home in
China. Rina, Ruby, and Clara were significantly malnourished when they entered
the program at New Day and have continued to struggle with digestive issues and
other serious medical problems. Please pray these little ones will improve
quickly. Give God thanks for the nannies who are working hard to make sure
Rina, Ruby, and Clara receive the nutrition and love they need. http://www.newdaycreations.com/foster/
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Please keep
3-month-old Esther in prayer as she is in very serious condition and needs a
new liver. Doctors are only giving her a few weeks to live, but she must be 6
months old before she’s eligible to go on the waiting list for a liver
transplant. Pray God will bless Esther with a miracle of healing. Pray she will
grow stronger and defy the odds she has been given. Pray for Esther’s nanny and
other New Day Foster Home caregivers as they work tirelessly to help this
little one survive.
India
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Please keep in
prayer the children and people who continue to be affected by the world’s
deadliest industrial disaster 30 years ago in Bhopal, India. More than 5,000
people were killed when a toxic gas accidentally leaked from a pesticide
factory on December 3, 1984 and was blown into the slum colonies surrounding
the plant. Activists believe 25,000 people have died since then from illnesses connected
to the leak of 40 metric tons of cyanide gas. http://tinyurl.com/lbv5bj4
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Pray the
thousands of tons of toxic waste buried inside and outside the pesticide
factory will be cleaned up soon. Pray for the 50,000 people living around the site
whose drinking water has been poisoned by this toxic waste seeping into the
ground.
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Pray for the
survivors of this disaster as they struggle with long-term health issues like
cancer, blindness, respiratory difficulties, and immune and neurological disorders.
Pray they will receive the support and health care they need to cope with these
devastating disabilities.
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Please pray for
the second and third generations of children affected by this disaster—children
born to survivors who were exposed to the gas and to women who drank water
contaminated by undisposed toxic waste around the factory. Pray for children born
with congenital deformities possibly linked to the deadly leak. Pray for
healing and comfort for children born with cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy,
Down’s syndrome, cleft palate, mental disorders, and speech impairments. http://tinyurl.com/p27x8tv
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Give God thanks
for the work of Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla—two women survivors of the
Bhopal disaster—who established a charitable rehabilitation center to help care
for 700 children affected by the calamity. Thanks be to God for the dedication
of these women and the staff and volunteers with Chingari Rehabilitation Centre
as they provide children with physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy,
and hope for the future.
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Please pray for
wisdom for those in the Supreme Court as they decide which Bhopal victims are
eligible for compensation and free health care. Pray the youngest victims will
be recognized and given the support they need to survive and thrive.
Philippines
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Please keep the
children and people of the Philippines close in prayer as they recover from
another powerful typhoon that struck the archipelago’s eastern island of Samar
on December 6, 2014. Typhoon Hagupit crushed more than ten thousand homes and
damaged twice that number of houses as it followed almost the same path taken by
last year’s deadly Typhoon Haiyan. http://tinyurl.com/pcse9we
http://tinyurl.com/o66sy4y
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Thanks be to God
the Philippine government evacuated millions of people to higher ground before
Hagupit made landfall. And give God thanks the loss of life (an estimated 27
people so far) was significantly lower than with Haiyan which left more than
7,000 people dead or missing and left millions homeless. http://tinyurl.com/m29zjhf
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Pray for children
and families in remote villages who’ve been cut off from help by washed-out
roads. Heavy rains, storm surges, flooding, and landslides have made it very
difficult for emergency workers to reach coastal villages hit by the storm. Pray
assistance will reach those who’ve been stranded; that God will fulfill their
most immediate and deepest needs.
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Pray for all
those affected by Typhoon Hagupit…for those who’ve been left homeless; those
who are in need of food, water, and safe shelter; and for those who have lost
crops and livelihoods.
