Pakistani police have arrested a mentally disabled 11-year-old girl after a mob accused her of desecrating pages of the Koran. The mob demanded the Christian girl’s arrest and threatened to burn down Christian homes outside the capital Islamabad, local media say. Read more from BBC news article …
Each week we invite you to pray with us for our brothers and sisters around the world who share our faith but not our freedoms. Using the “watchlist” produced by opendoorsusa.org, we will pray for persecuted Christians in a specific nation each week. We will also pray for Christians across America by lifting them up by state. Additionally, we will pray each week for our fellow Presbyterians. So, in 2012, we will pray together by name for Christians in 50 nations, Christians in all 50 states and all the presbyteries of the PCUSA, EPC, PCA and the emerging new Reformed body of The Fellowship of Presbyterians (these will be added as they are formed). You are encouraged to add specific pastors, lay leaders, congregations, missionaries, new church developments and other ministries to the list by posting a comment to the blog. (Please do not publicly post the names of missionaries serving in contexts where exposing their identity would cause them harm or bring harm to those they serve in Christ’s name.) Let us kneel before the Father and ask His will be done.
Let us pray …
Prayer for persecuted Christians in Burma/Myanmar.
Prayer for the nation – focusing on the state of North Carolina.
Prayers for the PCUSA: The Pacific, The Palisades and Palo Duro presbyteries.
Prayers for the PCA: Nashville and New Jersey presbyteries.