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Christian Girl Forcefully Converted to Islam and Married to Muslim

10/22/2014 Pakistan (Asia News)

 

Forced conversion and marriage of young Christian girls is a daily battle in Pakistan. 19-year-old Maria Bibi, is fighting this battle in court with her parents after an Islamic classmate, Mohammad Zohiab, mislead her to study, but instead took her to his mosque and forcefully married and converted her. "I am not married with Mohammad Zohaib, he is telling a lie in court, he tried to convert me forcefully to Islam and got married with me in mosque against my will, and this marriage I do not accept," Maria Bibi told AsiaNews. Meanwhile, the Pakistani Church is holding a day of fasting and prayer for Asia Bibi, sentenced to death for blasphemy, and pending the appeal to the Supreme Court, the last step to prevent the killing of an innocent.


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  • Pray God will deliver and continue to bless Maria and her family 
  • Pray Mohammad Zohiab will receive the Living Word of Christ for salvation 
  • Pray for the spiritual and physical healing of our Lord to anoint Asia Bibi and her family as they fight in His name

'Overwhelming Need' In Iraq as Winter Approaches, Thousands May Freeze in Makeshift Tents

10/21/2014 Iraq (Christian Today)

 

For the more than 100,000 Christians and over 1 million others displaced from their homes, the brutal Iraqi winter may prove to be a death sentence. As the jihadists of the Islamic state swept through Iraq they emptied entire towns and villages of their Christians for the first time in centuries. "There is an absolutely overwhelming need...people cannot be expected to survive in tents," John Pontifex of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) told Christian Today.Many Christians and minorities, have had to flee their homes with only the clothes on their backs.


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  • Pray the Muslim extremists will cease harming the children of God and become children of God   
  • Pray our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to provide for our brothers and sisters in Iraq

  • Pray our Lord will have His way in Iraq and restore His name in the land and the people

Pray For the Unity and Religious Tolerance in Indonesia

10/20/2014 Indonesia (Asia News)

 

The new president of Indonesia Joko "Jokowi" Widod took the oath of office at a ceremony held at parliament in Jakarta and is now the 7th President of Indonesia. He is the first president in the history of Indonesia not to have come from the military or political elite. He made a call for national reconciliation and unity. Facing the increasing radicalism and religious intolerance in Indonesia, is the new president able to improve the situation?  ICC interviewed Christians in Indonesia and almost all of them have expressed hope and optimism about the future of the country.

 

  • Pray President Widodo will uphold his word and bring peace, unity and religious tolerance to the nation of Indonesia
  • Pray the Muslim extremists in Indonesia will allow God to establish His Truth in their hearts
  • Pray for the spread of the Gospel in this land 

Boko Haram Violates Alleged Truce with Nigerian State, Claims Town for Caliphate

10/20/2014 Nigeria (BBC)
 

Following the announcement of a truce between the radical Islamic insurgency, Boko Haram, and the Nigerian government-against which it has fought for more than a decade for a separate Islamic state in the Nigerian north-militants belonging to the terrorist network reportedly attacked two towns, slaughtering innocents before claiming a third town for the Islamic caliphate it declared in late August. The Nigerian government has said that it intends to continue talks with senior Boko Haram membership despite the breach of the truce, which Boko Haram has yet to publicly acknowledge having agreed to.


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  • Pray for the swift release and deliverance of all kidnapped and harmed by Boko Haram
  • Pray Boko Haram will stop their evil works, in Jesus name 
  • Pray the Nigerian government will do more to bring peace and safety to the people

  

Attacks on Christians in India Skyrocket under BJP Government

10/20/2014 India (OneNewsNow)

After the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP took power following India's general elections in May, attacks on Christians and other religious minorities by Hindu radical groups has skyrocketed. In Uttar Pradesh, 600 instances of communal violence were recorded in the first 100 days of BJP's rule. Many of these attacks were perpetrated by Hindu radical groups against India's religious minorities. Will the situation for Christians and other religious minorities in India continue to deteriorate?


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  • Pray the BJP party, Modi and all of intolerance in India will fail in harming the people of Christ, and those who are in need of Christ
  • Pray the West will not be silent and and be a voice for persecuted Christians in India

U.S.: Ordained Ministers Face Jail Time For Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage

10/18/2014 United States (Daily Signal) 

 

Many in support of same-sex marriage argue that all Americans should be free to live as they choose, but countless cases from supporters and government officials have proven this doesn't apply to all Americans. A case in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho involving two ordained ministers, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, refused to marry a same-sex couple. The city said they have a non-discrimination statute that includes sexual orientation and gender identity. The Knapps are facing 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.

 

  • Pray the Knapps are released from this discrimination against Christ our Lord
  • Pray the United States will not continue to persecute Christians and stand for God's Truth

  

 

 
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