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PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER June 14, 2010

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * ANGER OVER FIRST BRITISH TV ABORTION ADVERTISEMENT * FURTHER WAVE OF DEPORTATIONS HIT FOREIGN CHRISTIANS IN MOROCCO * INDIAN HINDUS THREATEN TO DRIVE AWAY CHRISTIANS * SAMARITAN’S PURSE STAFF ABDUCTED IN THE SUDAN * PREGNANT WOMAN TOLD SHE WAS CARRYING HANDICAPPTED TWINS REFUSES ABORTION * TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD D RETURNS […]

Prayer for today

‘Undaunted, you seek the lost, O God, exultant, you bring home the found. Touch our hearts with grateful wonder at the tenderness of your forbearing love. Grant us delight in the mercy that has found us, and bring us all to rejoice at the feast of forgiveness. Amen’.

Pray for the World June 2010

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * IRAN: CHRISTIAN WOMEN ACQUITTED AND FREE * CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST PREACHER WHO SAID HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN * RAQUEL WELCH SAYS MARRIAGE IS THE CORNERSTONE OF CIVILIZATION * STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN KYRGYZSTAN * IRAQI BELIEVERS WARNED TO LEAVE * JAILED HAITIAN MISSIONARY RELEASED * PRE-BORN TWINS SAVE MOTHER’S […]

A Modern Version of the Lord’s Prayer

Dear One, You are closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming. May your powerful presence become obvious not only in the undeniable glory of the sky, but also in the seemingly base and common processes of the earth. Give us what we need, […]

MILITANT HINDUISM’S FEAR CAMPAIGN

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin Wed 02 June 2010 —————————————————- INDIA: HINDUTVA AND PERSECUTION ADVANCE UNCHALLENGED —————————————————- Hindu elites in the Sangh Parivar (Hindu nationalist forces) are striving to attain Hindu power in a Hindu State, primarily to perpetuate their own caste privilege. The strategy of the Sangh Parivar is to convert the indigenous, traditionally animist, […]

PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER June 1, 2010

AUSTRALIAN   PRAYER   NETWORK   NEWSLETTER * NEPAL: VIOLENT UPRISING EXPECTED * PRAY FOR IRAN AS EXECUTIONS TAKE PLACE * POLL SHOWS 70% OF IRISH OPPOSE ABORTION * STUDY ALLEGES COVER UP OF HONOUR VIOLENCE IN BRITAIN * FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAYS AMERICA NEEDS THE TOUCH OF JESUS * MUSLIM STUDENTS STAGE SIT-IN TO SUPPORT CHRISTIAN COLLEAGUES IN […]

PRAY FOR THE WORLD – May 2010

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * TURKEY’S CHRISTIANS EMBOLDENED BY MARTYRDOM * FAITH BASED ORGANISATIONS PLAN LONG TERM RECOVERY FOR HAITI * CHRISTIAN POPULATION IN IRAQ GREATLY DIMINISHED * NEW PROGRAM TO PUT CHAPLAINS IN BRITISH PUBS * LANDMARK RULING LEAVES CHRISTIANS WITH NO RIGHT TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION * SECULARISTS ATTEMPT TO OUTLAW PRAYERS AT LOCAL […]

Some Pentecost prayers …

I invite you to relax your body, close your eyes and hold out your hands: Spirit of life Before You and all the heavenly witnesses, We offer ourselves, mind, soul and body to You. Fill our emptiness with your fullness I invite you to place your hand over your chest: Spirit of power We adore […]

A PRAYER TO START THE DAY

O God, light of the minds that know you, life of the souls that love you, strength of the thoughts that seek you: Help us so to know you that we may truly love you, so to love you that we may fully serve you, whose service is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, […]

Martyrdom

*Sightings *5/17/10 — Martin E. Marty Almost always *Sightings* takes off from a current text or image lifted from news and opinion sources. This week our  ¢â‚¬Å“current ¢â‚¬  text is 1900 years old. It happened that Sunday I was to engage in a moonlighting vocation, namely preaching a sermon, something I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve enjoyed doing for sixty-two years. […]