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Vocational training for Pakistani Christians
Daily Prayer
The Lord has promised, "I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."
(Jeremiah 31:25)
Many Christians living in ongoing situations of discrimination and persecution are weary and faint, worn down by the year-in, year-out struggle to survive and the frustration of the injustices they suffer.
Help them to find strength and hope in God by praying for them, with us, daily.
Join with us daily in praying for the persecuted church around the world.
Daily Prayer - Thursday 20 June 2013
Two Christian boys in Egypt were found guilty on 4 February of “showing contempt for Islam” by allegedly desecrating pages of the Quran. Nabil Farag and Mina Risq were aged just 9 and 10 at the time of the alleged incident on 30 September 2012. They were accused of tearing up and urinating on pages of the Quran in the village of Ezbat Marco. The youngsters were convicted despite evidence being produced in court that they are illiterate and therefore not able to identify Quranic text. Give thanks that Nabil and Mina were not punished; they were only remanded to the custody of their parents. Pray that the boys will suffer no further repercussions from this incident; they may be vulnerable to attack or subject to discrimination.
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 19 June 2013
In another chilling sign of Egypt’s move towards becoming an Islamic state, it was announced in March that a religious police force had been established to uphold Muslim morals. The Committee for the ...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 18 June 2013
Christian girls in Egypt are extremely vulnerable to being kidnapped by Salafists who forcibly convert them to Islam and marry them to Muslim men against their will; over 500 have been victims of this...
Daily Prayer - Monday 17 June 2013
Pray for our brothers and sisters in North Africa living in the shadow of militant Islamism. Following the French intervention against Islamist groups who had taken over large parts of Mali, militants...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 16 June 2013
“I had just cooked my last meal, and there was no food in the house, nor money, nor any other way of obtaining grain. Thank the Lord for this aid, which has saved me and my children.” Bâh Kamaté, a Ch...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 15 June 2013
Those who become Christians in Laos risk losing everything. A couple from Chumpoy in the Sanamsai district of Attappeu province were thrown out of their village on 23 January for converting to Christi...
Daily Prayer - Friday 14 June 2013
Pray for church leaders in Laos, who are extremely vulnerable to harassment. Their faith is seen as an American import and a threat to national identity, and so they often come under suspicion from th...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 13 June 2013
Give thanks to the Lord that six Christian schools in Indonesia that were facing the threat of closure can now continue their work unhindered. The schools, in Blitar in East Java, received an injuncti...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 11 June 2013
In mid-January, British and European politicians called on Burma (Myanmar) to stop its military offensive in the predominantly Christian Kachin state. The campaign was launched in June 2011 and has le...
Daily Prayer - Monday 10 June 2013
On 8 February members of the mutawaah, the notorious Saudi Arabian religious police, descended on the home of an Ethiopian Christian in Dammam, where a private worship service was being held. They arr...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 09 June 2013
Iranian Christians continue to suffer abuse and opposition from the Islamic authorities. Earlier this year one ayatollah defamed their faith and declared that today’s Christians are “a shame to Christ...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 08 June 2013
Pray for Saeed Abedeni (32), an Iranian-American pastor who has been jailed for eight years in Iran for planting house churches “intended to undermine national security”. The US citizen was arrested l...
Daily Prayer - Friday 07 June 2013
Give thanks for a victory for religious freedom for British Christians. On 15 January, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found in favour of Nadia Eweida, who had been fighting a lengthy legal ...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 06 June 2013
Armenians, who are predominantly Christians, are a very vulnerable group in Turkey. Five attacks on elderly Armenians were carried out in the Samatya area of Istanbul between December 2012 and January...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 05 June 2013
“We want to praise the Lord for his protection, because a major disaster has been prevented.” With these words a Christian minister in Turkey thanked God that a plot to kill his fellow pastor Emre Kar...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 04 June 2013
Freedom for Christians in Cuba remains elusive despite some political reforms in the last five years. During 2012 the number of violations of freedom of religion or belief increased fourfold to 120. T...
Daily Prayer - Monday 03 June 2013
“Today, a great justice has been served. Masih was innocent and everyone knew. An innocent man was saved from a terrible fate.” The lawyer for Barkat Masih was speaking after his client was acquitted ...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 02 June 2013
“I could not survive without your support. Now I never worry about food because I can feed my children every month.” Asma, a Pakistani Christian mother whose husband was killed by Muslim extremists, s...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 01 June 2013
On 1 June 1993 it was announced that Barnabas Aid had been created to care for persecuted Christians and their families. Give thanks to God for His faithfulness to us throughout the last 20 years, as...
Daily Prayer - Friday 31 May 2013
Pray for Christians in Nepal, whose numbers appear to have been grossly under-estimated in the country’s latest census. The preliminary results put the number of Christians at 2 million, but when the ...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 30 May 2013
“I am able to go out for my ministry without worrying about my family’s safety. We are able to have peaceful nights [and] to enjoy our meals and family prayers.” With these words a Sri Lankan church l...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 29 May 2013
Many Christians in Sri Lanka are very poor and have little defence against the destructive natural disasters that frequently hit their country. Early this year severe flooding – the worst for eight ye...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 28 May 2013
Lift up to the Lord our Christian brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka, who face many kinds of pressure. Intermittent surges of severe violence by Buddhist extremists endanger Christians and their proper...
Daily Prayer - Monday 27 May 2013
Lift up to the Lord our brothers and sisters in Tanzania, where incidents of anti-Christian violence are on the increase. Two church leaders were killed in separate incidents in February. Pastor Evari...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 26 May 2013
“It’s good to be in the hands of El Shaddai.” These were the last words of Abdi Welli, a Somali pastor in Kenya, who was gunned down in the market place in Garissa on 7 February. Another church leader...
Daily Prayer - Friday 24 May 2013
On 20 January 2013 the Eritrean security police raided the homes of various Christians and arrested 50 people. One of them was a lady of 85, detained for hosting an underground church in her house. Th...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 23 May 2013
Pray for the families of Abdoulaye and Abakachi, two converts from Islam to Christianity who were shot dead by Islamists in northern Cameroon. They were travelling with two other converts around Lake ...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 22 May 2013
Give thanks to the Lord for the courage and boldness of the Christians in North Korea who carry on witnessing for Christ despite the savage penalties imposed by the Communist regime. Those who share t...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 21 May 2013
Mohamed Ibaouene (36), a convert from Islam to Christianity, was convicted in July 2012 of “proselytising” in Algeria. The verdict was passed in his absence and without his knowledge. He was later sen...
Daily Prayer - Monday 20 May 2013
The various measures recently taken against Christian churches and institutions by the government of Sudan add up to a ruthless campaign that may be intended to eradicate Christianity from the country...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 19 May 2013
The Sudanese authorities have intensified their crackdown on Christian activities by targeting Christian-run schools. Two of these in the capital, Khartoum, have been ordered to close. One is a primar...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 18 May 2013
An upsurge of arrests and deportations of Christians in Sudan has further unsettled the country’s vulnerable Christian minority. In January three Christians of South Sudanese origin were detained and ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 17 May 2013
“We have reached here with the help of God. We shall live well with God’s help in our land.” A Christian woman gave thanks as she arrived in South Sudan after escaping from discrimination and oppressi...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 16 May 2013
Pray for 14 Christians in Nghe An, Vietnam, who were sentenced in January to between three and 13 years in prison on charges of subversion against the state. Their lawyers complained that the Christia...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 15 May 2013
“The decree is intended to provide the tools to end the house-church movement entirely.” Nguyen Van Dai, a Christian lawyer in Vietnam, added his voice to a chorus of concern among church leaders abou...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 14 May 2013
Pray for five Christian families in Vietnam who have endured repeated violent attacks by their fellow villagers since becoming Christians. The families, who came to Christ in 2012, have since suffered...
Daily Prayer - Monday 13 May 2013
On 27 January about 50 members of the Islamic Defenders Front, a militant Islamist group, descended on a church in Mekargalih village in West Java, Indonesia. They scaled the gates, vandalised the bui...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 12 May 2013
“The Indonesian government’s failure to take decisive action to protect religious minorities from threats and violence is undermining its claims to being a rights-respecting democracy.” The Asia direc...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 11 May 2013
Iraq’s beleaguered and dwindling Christian community continues to suffer violence and threats. Two Christians were killed in the northern city of Mosul in January amid ongoing sectarian tensions. The ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 10 May 2013
As well as being displaced from their homes and enduring the risk of violence from opposition fighters, many Syrian Christians had to suffer the harshest winter the country has seen in 20 years withou...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 09 May 2013
Kidnapping for ransom has been an opposition tactic almost since the very beginning of the civil war in Syria, and many Christians have been brutally tortured and killed. On the roads around Aleppo th...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 07 May 2013
Pray for a Christian woman in a Central Asian country whose house was raided by police twice in January. Officers confiscated three Christian books, two DVDs of a Christian film and a sermon, and a vi...
Daily Prayer - Monday 06 May 2013
The constricting grip of state regulation continues to tighten on the churches of Kyrgyzstan. Amendments to its Religion Law have imposed harsher and more wide-ranging rules on the censorship of relig...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 05 May 2013
Pray for the congregation of an Egyptian church in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on 28 February. Two church ministers were assaulted by Islamist gunmen, who attempted to lynch one of them, Paul I...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 04 May 2013
It was once hoped that Libya would emerge from the Arab Spring as a country where the excesses of Islamism were restrained. The Islamist Justice and Construction Party (JCP), which is affiliated with ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 03 May 2013
Arrest. Torture. The threat of the death penalty. This is what Christians accused of evangelising Muslims may face in “liberated” Libya. At least 48 Egyptian Christians were arrested and tortured on 2...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 02 May 2013
Since at least two dozen Christians were killed during a peaceful protest on 9 October 2011, in what became known as the Maspero Massacre, the Egyptian authorities have tried to pin the blame for the ...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 01 May 2013
Attacks against churches in Egypt have increased since the revolution of 2011. St George’s Church in the village of Sarsena was targeted by local Muslims twice in two days in February. They were incit...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 30 April 2013
Four Indian Christians have been living for a year under the threat of unjust punishment. On 25 March 2012 a church service in Chichgaon, in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh, was violently di...
Daily Prayer - Monday 29 April 2013
Pray for healing and peace for Pastor R.D. Joshua from Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh in India, who was attacked while leading a service in a village in February. About ten people stopped the meeting, tied ...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 28 April 2013
More than 30 Christians were hospitalised with serious injuries after Hindu extremists attacked a group of worshippers with iron rods on 8 February. Around 100 members of three Hindu nationalist group...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 27 April 2013
Standing firm in their faith can put Pakistani Christians in danger of their lives. Younas Masih was shot dead as he made his way home in Baluchistan on 5 February. The fatal attack followed a heate...
Daily Prayer - Friday 26 April 2013
Pray for the hundreds of Christians from Joseph Colony in the Badami Bagh area of Lahore, Pakistan, who were left homeless after a 3,000-strong Muslim mob torched their houses on 9 March. The violence...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 25 April 2013
Saudi Arabia tries to present a tolerant image to the West. On 26 November 2012 the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue was opened in Vienna,...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 24 April 2013
Pray for Henna Sarkees, a Lebanese Christian living in Saudi Arabia, who has been charged with coercing a Muslim woman who was working for him to convert to Islam. Henna and an un-named Saudi national...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 23 April 2013
“God bless you and your great efforts to wipe the tears from the eyes of the children and widows and to help restore peace and dignity to the thousands of humiliated and broken-hearted in our churches...
Daily Prayer - Monday 22 April 2013
Thank the Lord for the courage and commitment of Christian leaders in Syria who continue to encourage and care for their people and organise the distribution of aid from Barnabas. Some of our partners...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 20 April 2013
“Ilshod” from Uzbekistan was a Muslim extremist with links to the Taliban before he found Christ and became a pastor. Under his encouraging guidance his congregation has grown from ten members in 2007...
Daily Prayer - Friday 19 April 2013
Converts from Islam in Tajikistan can experience great pressure from the Muslim community to reconvert and stop their Christian activity. Convert church leaders especially can suffer much coercion. In...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 18 April 2013
Christians in Northern Nigeria are not safe even in their own homes. On 14 November 2012, five members of one Christian family from Madauchi-Zonkwa, Kaduna state, were shot inside their house, which w...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 17 April 2013
A new church building in Kwara state, Nigeria, was burnt to the ground amid a dispute with Muslims over the ownership of the land. Members of Living Faith Church in Ilorin, the state capital, discover...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 16 April 2013
An accusation of blasphemy against a Christian tailor sparked deadly anti-Christian riots in the town of Bichi, Kano state, Northern Nigeria, on 22 November 2012. The tailor, Chibuke, accidentally mis...
Daily Prayer - Monday 15 April 2013
A 25-year-old Christian convert from Islam was beheaded by al-Shabaab militants in Somalia on 16 November 2012. Farhan Haji Mose was killed by members of the militant Islamist group in Barawa in front...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 13 April 2013
Hundreds of Muslims from a radical Islamist group descended on two congregations in West Sumatra, Indonesia, in late 2012 to protest against their planned building expansions. The mob threatened to us...
Daily Prayer - Friday 12 April 2013
Sharia law is continuing to spread in Indonesia. For example, the new mayor of Tasikmalaya in West Java, Budi Setiawan, promised on 19 November 2012 that the city’s by-laws would be based on sharia in...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 11 April 2013
“I was distressed to hear accounts of violent attacks, forced displacement, denial of identification cards and other forms of discrimination and harassment… I was also concerned to hear that the polic...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 10 April 2013
Give thanks that Barnabas Aid was able to provide much-needed maize, rice and medicines to 2,295 Christians in southern Mali last summer. Most had fled from the north following a violent take-over by...
Daily Prayer - Monday 08 April 2013
Egypt’s Islamist government is tightening its grip on the country, further undermining the safety of the large Christian population. Since coming to power in 2012, President Mohammed Morsi and his Mus...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 07 April 2013
Pray for a church in Shiraz, Iran, where an agent of the Islamic government has been installed, apparently to deter people from attending. He is said to be offensive to older members of the church and...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 06 April 2013
Forty Christians from four churches in Shiraz and Kavar, in the Fars province of Iran, were arrested in a sweep by security agents in late 2012. They were accused of “having contact with the enemies o...
Daily Prayer - Friday 05 April 2013
After Homayoun Shokouhi and his wife Fariba Nazemian, Christian converts from Islam in Iran, were arrested in early 2012, their 17-year-old son Nima was left to care for his 12-year-old sister alone. ...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 04 April 2013
Four Christians from a church in Ahwaz, Iran, were sentenced in late 2012 to a year’s imprisonment. The pastor, his wife and two assistant ministers were found guilty of “converting to Christianity, i...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 03 April 2013
Pray for church leaders in Sri Lanka, who are often targeted in attacks by Buddhist extremists and by the government. On 9 December 2012 a rock was thrown at the pastor in Weeraketiya, Hambanthota dis...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 02 April 2013
A young Christian man in Pakistan died in mysterious circumstances in police custody in late 2012 after he was accused of blasphemy. The 22-year-old, called Nadeem, was detained in Nankana Sahib witho...
Daily Prayer - Monday 01 April 2013
“The government is making fun of tribal Christians, and prevents the community from enjoying their constitutional rights.” A church leader in India was calling attention to the discrimination suffered...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 31 March 2013
A pastor in India was beaten unconscious in an assault by Hindu extremists on 30 November 2012. A group of Christians had gathered for prayer in Boothpada village, Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh when police b...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 30 March 2013
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), backed by Nigerian Christians in the US, has called over and over again for the US State Department to designate Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organisation...
Daily Prayer - Friday 29 March 2013
At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a church inside a military barracks in Kaduna state, Northern Nigeria. The attack on St Andrew’s Protestant Church in Jaji happened during a serv...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 28 March 2013
Nigerian army chief Azubuike Ihejirika estimated in November 2012 that militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been responsible for 3,000 deaths since 2009; this is the highest total given by an offici...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 26 March 2013
“Children without parents are going about the city, begging for help.” A Barnabas Aid partner in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was reporting on the desperate plight of Christians in Goma, East...
Daily Prayer - Monday 25 March 2013
Praise the Lord that a pastor who was facing extradition to Uzbekistan has been freed with help from Barnabas Aid. Makset Djabbarbergenov was being held in Kazakhstan while the authorities considered...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 24 March 2013
Many churches in Kazakhstan have been closed since late 2012 as the authorities enforce a crippling and controversial religion law. Since the expiry of a deadline for recognised religious groups to re...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 23 March 2013
Laws restricting the religious and human rights of Christians are on the increase in Kyrgyzstan. To help Christians deal with this problem, Barnabas Aid recently supported a two-day legal course for ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 22 March 2013
“A society can and should be judged, in part, by how it protects the rights of its minorities.” Speaking in Dublin in December 2012, outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted r...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 21 March 2013
Praise God for an important boost for religious freedom at the United Nations! In late 2012 the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief urged the international community to uphold the r...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 20 March 2013
Praise God that a leading German politician has stood up for the small Christian minority in Turkey. Volker Kauder, chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said on 5 December 2012,...
Daily Prayer - Tuesday 19 March 2013
Pray for churches and Christian organisations in the UK that may be threatened with the loss of their charitable status. Since 2006 Christian charities have been obliged to demonstrate that their acti...
Daily Prayer - Monday 18 March 2013
Give thanks that the Russian government is taking concrete steps to restore church assets that were seized during the Soviet era to their original ownership and use. An education bill and amendments t...
Daily Prayer - Sunday 17 March 2013
Give thanks to God that a church in Belarus has been given a last-minute reprieve from being forcibly evicted from its premises. New Life Pentecostal Church meets in a renovated cowshed on the outskir...
Daily Prayer - Saturday 16 March 2013
Pray for Christians on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines who were overwhelmed by a destructive storm in December 2012. Typhoon Bopha triggered flooding and landslides that devastated ...
Daily Prayer - Friday 15 March 2013
Christians in the southern Philippines are facing second-class status in their homeland. The national government has made an agreement with a Muslim separatist group to create an autonomous area calle...
Daily Prayer - Thursday 14 March 2013
Christians in Vietnam continue to experience arbitrary arrests and unjust convictions at the hands of the authorities. Seventeen young Christians were arrested for committing “anti-state” activities l...
Daily Prayer - Wednesday 13 March 2013
Pray for four men from the mainly Christian Hmong ethnic group in Vietnam who have been jailed for religious activities. They were given jail sentences ranging from three to seven years at a trial in ...
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