You have probably heard about the massive attack on an international Hotel in the Capital City on Sunday, where a dear sister of us was murdered. Two days later a well-known NGO who worked the country for many years was attacked with many people killed.
This building up of armed aggression against foreigners and NGO’s needs re-evaluation on our side. Please pray that we have wisdom how we can improve the safety of our workers and for much needed peace and security in the country.
There are serious differences between the governor in a Northern Province and the president. The tension is rising and there are fears for a feud within the government. Pray that this will be stopped.
TEAMS
The teams are quite shaken through the sudden death of our good friend. Continue to pray for protection and encouragement during these times of uncertainty.
CP
Despite this, one team could reach out to people who showed interest. Pray that they will continue to do so with much boldness and wisdom.
Pray for the local believers that they will be equipped and that doors may open into a neighbouring country in order to start regular training programmes there soon.
Thank for praying with us,
Your ElRock Team
Yemen has been undergoing a major civil war over the past three years. Cities are continuing to be bombed and the infrastructure is collapsing. The media reports that over 10,000 people have been killed with three million displaced from their homes. There is severe famine in parts of the country. Its few oil fields are not producing. Cholera is epidemic, the currency is collapsing, prices are soaring, and many in the public sector haven’t been paid in over a year. There is also fear that school age boys will be recruited to fight for the Houthis who control large areas of the country.
7 Key Areas for Prayer for Yemen:
Please pray for the peace and the rebuilding of Yemen in these seven key areas:
Hunger: The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is severe as many are starving or on the verge of having nothing to eat. Malnutrition and infant mortality is becoming normal. Pray that food will be sent and arrive to those who must have it to survive. Pray that ships, airplanes and trucks will be given permission to bring an abundance of food and supplies. Pray that those who seek to exploit others due to high prices will be led by God to put aside greed and help the many who are battling poverty.
Cholera: Yemen currently has one of the world’s largest epidemics of cholera. Pray that this illness will not spread, that medicines to help those suffering will become available, and that people suffering from it will get well. Pray that garbage will be picked up, that there will be fuel to boil water, and that the people will have clean food and water.
Bombings: Pray that those who are fighting one another will put aside their differences and go to the negotiating table. Pray that they will agree to work together for peace. Pray for the violence to cease!
Infrastructure: Roads, houses, schools, factories, oil fields, and hospitals have been destroyed. Pray that the generosity of others will flood this nation. Pray that peace will come so that rebuilding can begin.
Displaced people: There are three million displaced people in areas of the country which are relatively peaceful. Displaced families have moved there. Pray for those who are hosting them that they will have enough to meet their own needs as well as the needs of others. Pray for peace to remain in these areas. Pray that the displaced people will be able to return to their homes.
Trauma: Three years of war have created a nation of people who have buried family, been injured physically, and have suffered extreme mental trauma. Pray over them the words about Jesus in Isaiah 61:1 – “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”
Yemeni believers: Thank God for brothers and sisters in Christ who continue to be a witness in Yemen. Praise Him for bringing many Yemenis to Himself! Pray that God will provide for their needs during this time of war and economic disaster. Pray that their numbers will increase and that they would be able to worship together. Pray that they would be mobilized to serve their communities and be a light that shines brightly in the darkness of this war. In addition, Yemeni believers suffer extreme persecution according Open Doors which has ranked Yemen as the ninth most difficult place to be a Christian on its 2017 Open Doors World Watch List. So not only is there a physical war, but a spiritual one as well. Pray that the believers would wear the full armor of God and stand strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might (Ephesians 6:10,11), serving and loving each other and their neighbors for Christ’s glory in Yemen.
On the PTAP web site, you can also find a word.doc version of this and also a powerful PowerPoint about what is going on in Yemen. http://www.pray-ap.info/yemen.html
By John D. Robb
For today's hyperactive missions leaders, apart from opening and closing meetings, saying grace at the table or as a special consolation in time of emergency or stress, prayer is most often treated as a harmless pastime rather than a strategic resource. In our attitude we often relegate it to the likes of doting old ladies who have nothing better to do with the autumn time of life. Certainly, for most mission leaders, prayer does not seem to be where the action is, otherwise wouldn't we be giving it far more attention in our busy lives?
A Revealing Case Study
One of the greatest illustrations of prayer as a strategic resource in frontier missions is found in the experience of J.O. Fraser, the pioneer missionary to the Lisu tribe of southwest China. As a young missionary with the China Inland Mission in the early 1900s, he preached Christ for several years among the far-flung mountain villages of this people with almost no outward results, Fraser's few converts fell back into the clutches of demonism, and he himself, attacked by severe depression and suicidal despair, almost gave up his mission. Breakthrough occurred when two things happened:
1. The Spirit of God enabled him to pray "the prayer of faith" for several hundred Lisu families to come to Christ.
2. He succeeded in forming a prayer support group of eight to ten Christians in his home country to back up the work in ongoing prayer.
His wife later wrote about the difference this prayer effort made in Fraser's work: "He described to me how in his early years he had been all but defeated by the forces of darkness arrayed against him.... He came to the place where he asked God to take away his life rather than allow him to labor on without results. He would then tell me of the prayer forces that took up the burden at home and the tremendous lifting of the cloud over his soul, of the gift of faith that was given him and how God seemed suddenly to step in, drive back the forces of darkness and take the field"
Fraser himself said:
"Work on our knees. I am feeling more and more that it is after all just the prayer of God's people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not. Paul may plant and Apollos water, but it is God who gives the increase, and this increase can be brought down from heaven by believing prayer whether offered in China or in England......If this is so, then Christians at home can do as much for foreign missions as those actually on the field. I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in missionary work by the prayers of earnest believers at home...
Solid lasting missionary work is done on our knees. What I covet more than anything else is earnest believing prayer, and I write to ask you to continue in prayer for me and the work here."
"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth....We are not dealing with an enemy that fires at the head only- that keeps the mind only in ignorance-but with an enemy who uses poison gas attacks which wrap the people around with deadly effect and yet are impalpable, elusive...Nor would it be of any more avail to teach or preach to Lisu here while they are held back by these invisible forces...But the breath of God can blow away all those miasmic vapors from the atmosphere of a village in answer to your prayers. We are not fighting against flesh and blood. You deal with the fundamental issues of this Lisu work when you pray against the principalities, the powers, the world rulers of this darkness, the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenlies (Eph. 6:12)."
In the years that followed hundreds of families accepted Christ and ultimately a people movement involving tens of thousands of Lisus ensued. Today in southwest China and northern Burma they are a missionary tribe taking the Gospel to other tribes about them.
What would have happened if Fraser had not formed that prayer support group which he so faithfully kept informed with up-dates from the field? Would the breakthrough have occurred? In the decades since, how many potential breakthroughs among the unreached have not occurred because:
1) Prayer was not perceived and used as a strategic weapon.
2) Prayer supporters were not kept linked ongoingly to a particular unreached group or provided with a supply of up-to-date information? In relation to our society's theme for this year, could it be that prayer as perceived and practiced by "Great Commission Christians" is a crucial missing link in the accomplishment of world evangelization?
After dealing with the nature and importance of prayer briefly, I would like to enumerate some reasons from Scripture, history and current experience, why prayer may be the crucial link, the strategic weapon in frontier missions. Having demonstrated the importance of strengthening this link, we will then put our minds together in discussion to discover new ways we might operationalize the linkage of focused intercession and the unevangelized world.
Prayer at its very heart is a linking activity. First, prayer links us with God to receive His power and direction as we pray for the world and carry out our own ministries. Secondly, as we pray for the unevangelized world, it links us with particular unreached groups and the Christian workers laboring among them. It links our efforts and their efforts to God in His almightiness, without whose help all such efforts ultimately are in vain. O. Hallesby writes:
"The work of prayer is prerequisite to all other work in the Kingdom of God for the simple reason that it is by prayer that we couple (italics mine) the powers of Heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can turn water into wine and remove mountains in our own life and the lives of others, the powers which can awaken those who sleep in sin and raise up the dead, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.
Yet having said this, prayer can often be the missing link in our efforts on behalf of the unevangelized world. As important as good organization, planning, and strategy are in world evangelization, in our busyness for God we may have neglected to link up with His power and direction to carry out that particular part of His mission given to us. And that is a crucial omission! John D. Robb is Chairman of the International Prayer Council and International Prayer Connect
URGENT CALL TO PRAYER
You are probably as shocked as I was to learn of the spate of attacks and deaths that greeted the New Year in Nigeria. Worshippers who had just had Crossover Service in their church in Omoku, Rivers State, were gruesomely murdered by heartless cultists. Over 15 people, including innocent women and children, were cut down in a hail of bullets. As if that was not enough, the following day, we heard how Fulani Herdsmen invaded villages in Guma and Logo Local Governments in Benue State and killed several people (some speculate over 50!) and destroyed houses and properties.
The government seems to be powerless and have been accused of being impervious to the sufferings of the people. The security agencies appear to be so desensitized that you wonder if they still have value for human lives. But we cannot fold our hands and let this continue, it’s time to rise as intercessors and pray.
The following prayer points are only a guide. May the Lord bring us to the depth of prayers that will stem this rising tide of violence in our nation.
- Fulani Herdsmen are rated as the 4th most deadly terror group on the Global Terrorism Index, yet the government does not seem to be concerned about the daily destruction they cause to lives and properties. Let’s pray that God will stir up a national and international outcry against this group.
- Ask God to release His plans to reverse wicked evil political actions that have led to the murder of innocent lives across the nation (especially government’s inaction concerning the destruction of lives and properties by the Fulani herdsmen)
- People in Guma and Logo Local Government in Benue State have been thrown into mourning following the invasion by the herdsmen, which led to the death of tens of people. Let’s pray that those who carried out this attack will be caught and judged.
- The activities of the herdsmen now extend to virtually every part of the country. There are speculations that it is a modern form of jihad. Let’s pray that God will expose community leaders in the South who are conniving with them
- Let’s pray that the Middle Belt states would be undeterred in implementing the anti-grazing bills that have been passed in some of the states. Pray that they will not be intimidated by the antics of the herders
- Pray for the prosecution of the leaders of Miyetti Allah in Benue State who promised to cause mayhem in the state. Pray that the government will be bold enough to bring this man and his group to justice
- Let’s pray that the National Assembly will now see the need to pass laws that will curtail the activities of the Fulani herders. Pray that the Open Grazing Bill will be frustrated and thrown out.
- Let’s pray that these communities will not be intimidated. Rather, may the Lord strengthen their resistance against the Islamic agenda
- Pray concerning the state of insecurity in Rivers State, especially Omoku and its environs. Let’s pray that the group that carried out the recent massacre will be arrested and judged
- These were people returning from Crossover service in a church. Let’s pray that God will arise and judge those who perpetrated this mayhem on innocent worshippers
- The violence in Omoku (and most of Rivers State) has their root in cult conflicts. Let’s pray that God will rain judgment on these cults and those behind them
- The acrimonious politics of Rivers State has created an environment that engenders violence. Let’s pray that God would restrain Governor Nyesom Wike and Hon Chibuike Amaechi, that they will begin to work for the peace and welfare of the state
- Let’s pray that God will comfort and encourage families who lost loved ones in the carnage. Let’s pray that God would use this situation to bring salvation to the community.
Pastor Austen Ukachi
"That is why Jesus became one of us. He died to destroy the devil, who had power over death. But he also died to rescue all of us who live each day in fear of dying." — Hebrews 2:14–15 (CEV)
Last year, SCWA sent a team of workers to travel the length of Togo, meeting with people in villages and towns and talking about accusations of witchcraft against children. Many people were afraid to speak openly of this phenomenon, even though they acknowledged a widespread awareness of its existence and the harm it caused. Much of this reluctance to speak related to fear: fear of bringing harm upon themselves and fear of death. When a death occurs, this is itself often a trigger of witchcraft accusations as people try to make sense of such loss. Fear of death can make people slaves. Only Jesus can set them free.
JESUS DIED TO RESCUE ALL OF US WHO LIVE EACH DAY IN FEAR OF DYING. — HEBREWS 2:15
Thank God
- Thank God for giving us a way to be free from the fear of death, through Jesus, and for giving us opportunities to bring freedom to others who are slaves to fear.
- Fear of death is not insurmountable. We thank you, God, for SCWA and its network of collaborators, who are bringing a message of hope and reconciliation to those accused of witchcraft and to those who accuse others.
Please Pray
- Recently, an academic team in the UK agreed to analyse the research into the roots, realities and responses of witchcraft accusations, performed in Togo villages and towns last year. Pray that this work will bring greater understanding of the issues — and Togo’s specific context — and support the efforts of local church leaders in addressing child witchcraft accusations.
- Pray that, through gentle exploration, affected communities and churches will be equipped to discuss both witchcraft accusations and the fear of death in a way that brings light, love, reconciliation and hope for the future. Where death, violence and rejection divide, we pray that forgiveness will heal.
- China has been building what it calls "the world's biggest camera surveillance network". Across the country, 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed in the next three years.
Many of the cameras are fitted with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition technology. The BBC's John Sudworth has been given rare access to one of the new hi-tech police control rooms.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42248056/in-your-face-china-s-all-seeing-state
The “Beast” ubiquitous surveillance system continues to advance with the goal of the absolute control of the worlds population as slaves of the anti-christ!
- Middle East- Middle Eastern governments are using high tech mass surveillance tools to monitor their citizens.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-40531967/weapons-of-mass-surveillance
Doug Riggs, Pastor
Let’s pray that these attempts to control whole populations and thus dominate them will be counteracted and foiled by concerned citizens. Pray for the exposure of governmental schemes to use the fear of terrorism as a cover for the invasion of privacy on a mass scale.
Confronting the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer boldly declared: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
This holds true in America today, given our own holocaust of abortion, where 60 million innocent babies have been destroyed in gas chambers called abortion clinics.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/lets-break-americas-shameful-silence-in-face-of-evil/
Pray that the tide of abortion in the USA and around the world will be turned back and that the life of every child in their mother’s womb would be held as sacrosanct and uniquely valuable. A sea change in mentality is needed to overcome the false and debunked “population bomb” ideology that mankind must use the practice of killing the unborn to reduce world population.
- Kim Jong Out? Some see signs of collapse No shots fired at defector, U.S. preps 'infiltration,' economy on brink http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/kim-jong-out-some-see-signs-of-collapse/
- North Korean source of massive computer worm attack. TheWashington Postreports the Trump administrationidentified North Korea as the source of the WannaCry computer worm that affected 230,000 computers earlier this year. The administration called on “all responsible states” to counter North Korea’s ability to conduct cyberattacks and to implement all “relevant” UN sanctions. “The [WannaCry] attack was widespread and cost billions, and North Korea is directly responsible,” said a Trump administration official. “We do not make this allegation lightly. It is based on evidence. We are not alone with our findings, either.”[i] Note: Russia should share some of the blame because that nation facilitated North Korea’s enhanced access to the worldwide web.
- SECDEF claims N Korea’s ICBM not yet “capable threat.” Reutersreports U.S. SECDEF Jim Mattis saidthat even as an analysis continued on North Korea’s most recent missile test, he does not believe its ICBM is capable of threatening the U.S. homeland. “It has not yet shown to be a capable threat against us right now … we’re still doing the forensics analysis,” Mattis said.[ii]
Other dangerous areas of our world
- Chinese warplanes test neighbors’ air defenses. TheAssociated Pressreports Chinese warplanes on a long-range drill to the Sea of Japanconducted drills around rival Taiwan, an action that prompted South Korea to scramble fighter aircraft. A Chinese air force spokesman said its air force dispatched bombers, fighters and reconnaissance planes through the Tsushima Strait to the Sea of Japan to “test its ocean combat ability.” “This is a regular annual training arrangement of China’s air force that accords with the relevant international laws and practices and it isn’t aimed at any particular state, region and target,” the spokesman said in a statement.[iv] Note: Beijing is steadily increasing pressure throughout the Indo-Pacific region through its far reaching air incursions, its island-building campaign and its rapidly expanding naval presence. These upgrades and confrontations are not going without notice and are worrisome given President Xi’s promise at the 19thCongress to make China a global military power.
- Worst Obama legacy yet – trading America’s national security for an Iran nuclear legacy. Politicopublished a fascinating report about an ambitious U.S. task force targeting Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah and was sidelined by the White House’s desire for a nuclear deal with Iran. This is very much a “deep state” story of intrigue and political manipulation by the Obama federal bureaucracy. Specifically, Project Cassandra was a $1 billion, 2008 Drug Enforcement Administration effort targeting Hezbollah’s drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities. The interagency effort traced the criminal conspiracy to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Tehran. However, that effort was sidelined by Obama officials who threw insurmountable roadblocks in its way. Even though Hezbollah delivered multi-tons of cocaine into the U.S. and undermined American interests globally, then Obama CIA director John Brennan insisted upon helping Hezbollah to gain more influence in Lebanon. The end result of the Obama administration’s effort was to neuter Project Cassandra to curry favor with Tehran to embrace the 2015 nuclear agreement.[vi] Note: ThePoliticopiece is long, complex but the allegation is clear: the Obama administration sacrificed America’s security/welfare in exchange for the Iran nuclear deal – the former president’s foreign policy legacy.
- China-India enter troubled water dispute. STRATFOR reports “The latest dispute between India and China is as murky as the water it's over. In October, the South China Morning Post reported that China had revived plans to build a 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) tunnel to divert water to Xinjiang province from the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southern Tibet and was testing the technique on a separate tunnel project. China denied that any such plans were underway. But when the Sang River then appeared muddier than normal in recent weeks and displayed elevated levels of iron, it struck a nerve in India. A local leader running for office in Arunachal Pradesh speculated that Chinese construction was responsible for the pollution, but he failed to provide evidence to back up his assertion and both Indian and Chinese leaders denied that China was responsible for the muddy waters. On Dec. 4, Indian Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said an earthquake that took place in mid-November could be responsible for changes to the river. Whether China is planning a diversion project or not and regardless of whether it is behind the most recent murky waters, the events have shown just how volatile transboundary rivers can be for the regional giants.”[vii]
Robert Maginnis
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
9 killed, over 50 injured in church bombing in Pakistan
18 December 2017
On Sunday, 17 December, a suicide bomber targeted a Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan leaving nine dead and more than fifty injured.
According to reports, though two attackers targeted the Bethel Memorial
Methodist Church, only one managed to detonate his vest. The second attacker was killed by security forces. It is believed that more than 400 worshippers were
attending the worship service during the time of the attack. A group affiliated
to the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
“We condemn this inhuman attack in Quetta and call on the Pakistani government to take all steps necessary to provide adequate security to Christians during this Christmas season,” said Godfrey Yogarajah, the Deputy Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance. “We pray for God’s healing mercy upon
those injured in the attack and God’s presence to be with those grieving the
loss of loved ones,” he added.
Prayer points:
* Pray that those perpetrating violence against Christians in Pakistan would
experience a change of heart, repent, and turn to Jesus Christ.
* Pray for God’s healing upon those injured in the attack.
* Pray for God’s comfort upon families grieving the loss of loved ones.
* Pray that the Pakistani government would step up security measures for churches, ensuring the safety of Christians.
Terrorist training
Recently the world has watched in amazement as the new young Saudi Arabian prince has arrested, on corruption charges, many other princes and leaders. It is not fully clear why he has done this. Power would be one reason, but some say that he realizes that with the reduction of the need for oil from his country people are looking at the influence his country has had on radical Islam throughout the world. Its Wahhabi type of Islam has indoctrinated people around the world, funded radical mosques, and financed terrorist groups like al-Qaida. This has had a very negative effect on relationships with many countries.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have been the major financial backers of radical Islam in Pakistan. Until this funding is stopped, it is almost impossible to stop terrorist groups. President Musharraf was the last president to try and stop this. Madrassa schools are the training and recruiting grounds for terrorists. Musharraf was closing these down. As they were closed down, many of them moved to one of the most radical parts of the country. Hundreds of these schools sprang up. One block could have several schools on it. There were times when terrorist groups would come into these schools and take out as many as 10,000 young people to their camps for further training.
How do these schools work? Everyone wants education for their children. A worker came wanting to send their eldest boy to one of these schools. He was persuaded not to do it. They later thankfully came and shared how a neighbor had sent their son to the madrassa and when they went to visit him a few months later, they found he had been sent away to become a “mighty warrior.” They never saw him again.
PRAISE for HOPE- God’s intervention in an unexpected way.
PRAY the Prince of Saudi Arabia will stop funding for madrassas, and fanatical
training camps and mosques in Pakistan. That they will be closed down.
Demonstrations to overthrow the government. The situation had grown to where sit-ins and marches were in over 20 major cities. The major issue for these demonstrations was over the blasphemy law. This law is hated by most people in the country. Muslims use it not only against Christians but revengefully against fellow Muslims. The government has tried to rectify this issue.
The whole issue had started when one very fanatical group, known for their stand
on the blasphemy law, gathered other groups to stand against the change that had been made in this law. The military was finally called in and stopped the demonstrations. They are being proclaimed as the heroes who saved the country. But it was with an agreement that a council of 14 people, made up of several well-known “pirs” and fanatics, will decide the fate of over a dozen political members, the ones who had tried to change this law.
PRAISE that the demonstrations have been stopped temporarily.
PRAY for Peace
for this council’s decision
for the military’s place in all of this.
PRAYER TEAM TO PAKISTAN For their preparations, safety, papers to be granted and ministry.
Breakthrough praying
There have been breakthroughs in the Muslim world with moves of God and church planting movements in nearby countries, but things have been slow to move in Pakistan in some regards.
We are asking people to incorporate prayers for Pakistan into their prayers. We want 2018 to be a year of prayer for Pakistan. Would you kindly pray for :
- a fresh move of God in Pakistan, reviving the church and birthing a church planting movement among the majority
- a neutralizing of the powers and principalities that hinder the advance of the gospel and the witness of the church
- that God would continue to call the leaders needed to launch a media ministry partnership, especially that he would call and identify the key Pakistani leaders for our International Council and Executive Board
- wisdom and grace for our executive leaders as the formulate and begin to execute business plans
- a continued strong momentum as representatives of the global church partner with representatives of the Pakistani church to bring the gospel there with power
- great unity among us as we move forward by faith, clearly sensing the Lord’s leading with each step.
Sixty-day-old Nadia Ahmad Sabri, who suffers from severe malnutrition, lies in a bed at a malnutrition treatment center in Hodeidah, Yemen, on Wednesday. (Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)
David Miliband, president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee and former British foreign secretary, is the author of “Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time.”
“This week, the 1,000th day of Yemen’s civil war is marked by disease and starvation rather than peace talks and humanitarian aid. This truly is the new world disorder: an increasingly divided Middle East, western diplomacy in retreat, international law undermined. And the options are only getting worse.
There are 22.2 million Yemenis currently in need of humanitarian assistance. Of these, 8.4 million are at serious risk of starvation. The number of cholera cases has just passed 1 million – an astonishing figure. In the standoff between Saudi Arabia (backed by the United States) and Iran, civilians are paying a horrific price. Yemen suffered more airstrikes in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2016. According to the United Nations, airstrikes killed 136 Yemeni civilians in an 11-day span earlier this month. Peace talks are nowhere in sight.” The latest news is that 68 civilians were just killed in what has been called “an absurd and futile war”. Let’s make a concerted effort in united prayer for God’s peace to come over this terribly troubled land and that these long-suffering people, especially the children, will receive relief and medical assistance. Pray also for peace talks to be held that will result in the ending of the conflict which is the basis for all the horrors that are happening there.