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AFRICA: CHRISTIANS TARGETED FROM EAST TO WEST

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 157 | Wed 02 May 2012 by Elizabeth Kendal Security is deteriorating rapidly for Christians along Africa’s notorious ethnic-religious fault-line: roughly between the 5 to 10 degrees north parallels. Genocidal Islamic jihad has displaced Christians in Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Mali and Ivory Coast. Multitudes of predominantly Christian, […]

Pray for the World 30 April 2012

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER SHARIA LAW IN THE U.K. A THREAT TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAYS MEMBER OF HOUSE OF LORDS SOUTH SUDAN UNDER PRESSURE AS CHRISTIANS ARE FORCED OUT ONE IN FOUR CHILDREN IN THE U.K. BULLIED AS A RESULT OF THEIR RELIGIOUS FAITH KUWAIT: DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES U.K. GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES FAITH BASED SCHOOLS […]

Joy: a prayer…

(Prayed at our Wednesday Koinonia group – more on Joy here:  http://jmm.org.au/articles/29906.htm ) Dear Lord  ¢â‚¬“ Father, Son and Spirit, We come before you in awe and reverence. May we worship you not only when we gather together, but at all times, in all places, and may we always relish your holy name. O God of […]

Pray for the World April 23 2012

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER   AFRICA SENDS OUT MISSIONARIES BY THE THOUSANDS CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN PROGRAM OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN SUDAN WHY THE DEATH OF COPTIC POPE SHENOUDA IS IMPORTANT TO EGYPTIAN PROTESTANTS TURNING A BLIND EYE TO THE WAR ON CHRISTIANS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD CHRISTIAN PERSECTION – PRAY NOW!! BOKO HARAM THREATENS TO KIDNAP […]

AFGHANISTAN: April 18, 2012

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 155 | Wed 18 Apr 2012 ———————————————————- AFGHANISTAN: CHURCH ‘A SMOULDERING WICK’ (ISAIAH 42:3 NIV) ———————————————————- By Elizabeth Kendal On Sunday 15 April the Haqqani network launched the Taliban’s ‘Spring Offensive’ in Afghanistan. The Haqqani are an ethnic Pashtun network based in Pakistan’s tribal border regions with ties to […]

Pray for the World 16 April 2012

SAUDI ARABIAN ISLAMIC LEADER SAYS ALL CHURCHES IN ISLAMIC NATIONS SHOULD BE DESTROYED ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ANNOUNCES HE IS STEPPING DOWN AT THE END OF THE YEAR ~~ SAUDI ARABIAN ISLAMIC LEADER SAYS ALL CHURCHES IN ISLAMIC NATIONS SHOULD BE DESTROYED Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, the highest official of […]

Pray for the World April 10 2012

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 154 | Wed 11 Apr 2012 —————————————— MALI: CHRISTIANS FLEE IMPOSITION OF SHARIA (plus: a Nigeria update) —————————————— by Elizabeth Kendal Having seized the capitals of the three main northern provinces in three days — Kidal, on 30 March, Gao on 31 March and Timbuktu on 1 April — […]

Richard Rohr, A Lever and a Place to Stand

Richard Rohr, A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer (2011: The World Community of Christian Meditation). My friends tell me that one of the memories they take away from my Leadership Seminars  ¢â‚¬“ and sometimes my preaching – is a few of  ¢â‚¬ËœCroucher ¢â‚¬â„¢s Global Statements ¢â‚¬â„¢. OK, (give a dog […]

Pray for the World March 26, 2012

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER BRITAIN LAUNCHES WAR ON MULTICULTURALISM ETHIOPIANS COME TO CHRIST IN DROVES AFTER WATCHING JESUS FILM HOW GOD CHANGED ONE AMERICAN COMMUNITY THROUGH PRAYER TRIBAL GENERATION MOVEMENT SEEKS TO REACH A NEW GENERATION WITH THE GOSPEL BBC GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO MOCK JESUS RUSSIA MOVES TO CURTAIL HIGH ABORTION RATE BRITAIN LAUNCHES […]

THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING

The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown English mystic in the 14th century, is one of those books where I remember exactly where I was when I read it (walking around the English Bay seawall). Our ministry at First Baptist Church Vancouver came to an abrupt end, and I was privileged to spend a […]