[…] for those who seem unforgiveable. For those who kidnapped 100 girls from their school in Nigeria For the masked men on a sidewalk outside a synagogue in Ukraine, handing out leaflets allegedly from pro-Russian groups demanding that Jews register and pay a fine or leave the area, spreading rumors and fears among Jews throughout […]
World News The Week in Prayer – Thursday April 10, 2014
[…] Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda; like the possibilities that inhere in the upcoming meeting of Russia, the European Union, and the United States on the standoff in Ukraine. These possibilities may be realized and they may not. When they are realized, keep our rejoicing modest. Leading God, by your kindness keep us mindful of […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 3, 2014
[…] is said to be an epidemic of an unprecedented scale. the civilians and attackers who died in a suicide bombing in north-east Nigeria. the people in the Ukraine. the people in the Middle East. the people of Washington State in the USA who were killed in a mudslide. the African and European leaders who […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 27, 2014
[…] against the government. The arrests are the latest development in nearly two months of political unrest, which have cost the lives of at least 32 people. In the Ukraine, where Russian intervention is testing several fundamental norms of world politics. The crisis challenges established principles of sovereignty and nonintervention, and it elevates the principle of nationality […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 20th 2014
[…] protection of the thousands of young teenagers trying it and becoming hooked. . . The carnage in Syria, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Iraq, the unrest in Ukraine, Crimea, Brazil, Taipei, and so many other countries. . . Come Grace, come glory, come goodness. Come down, Come in, Come among us. We pray for […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, March 13, 2014
[…] in temporary housing on this, the third anniversary of the devastating Japanese tsunami; for those with greater access to mobile phones than to clean drinking water; for the people of Ukraine, especially the province of Crimea; for the people of Syria. Lord, keep us in our going out and our coming in, forever more. Amen
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday March 6, 2014
[…] God of All Love, and we lift before you those who truly need our prayers, our concern: · Those struggling for freedom and human rights in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Burma, Sudan, and Afghanistan. God of mercy, we rest in the assurance that you hear our prayer. · Those who struggle to supply life’s daily […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, February 20, 2014
[…] the end, that Love will come again, that Light will spring out of darkness. We pray that Promise, with every fiber of our being, for those in: Ukraine South Sudan Syria Venezuela Central African Republic North Korea Nigeria Lebanon Iraq Somalia And for all in turmoil, fear, or despair from violence, wars, drought, flooding, […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, January 30, 2014
[…] are ever tempted to reject the better for the perfect. Help us embrace the possibilities unfolding in negotiations between the United States and Syria, in disputes in Ukraine, wherever progress, even modest progress, is being made. Free of implementation responsibilities we grow besotted with better ideas, or so we think. Give us humble hearts, […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, January 23, 2014
Just as Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James and John to follow him long ago, Jesus calls us today to follow him. One of the ways we follow is through prayer. Let us join our hearts together and pray. Holy God, help us we pray, to hear your call to us. Make us ready to change the […]