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Praying for Israel Part 2
5/08/2021 (Voice of the Persecuted) Dear Prayer Warriors, you are invited to join us on Saturday, May 08 in a prayer conference call hosted by Persecution Watch. We will continue to pray for Israel, Jews and Muslims.
Praise
(Psalm 103:19) You have established your throne in the heavens and your kingdom reigns over all Hallelujah.
Continue praying for Muslims during Ramadan
Salvation
- Give them dreams and visions and connect with those who can explain them
- Pray against spirit of fear and rejection
- Pray be discouraged with Islam, its violence, etc. Let them realize how often their god has failed against Israel, even against all odds
Pray against Arab replacement theology
(There is a group, centered in Bethlehem, that believe Yeshua was Arab, Ismael was sacrificed instead of Isaac, the land was given to them, Bible written by “Palestinians”)
Pray for those using social media
- Confound all social media users who spread lies and incitement against Israel and Jewish people globally.
- Pray for online ministries and ministers
- That non-believers would hear Word through it; believers strengthened by it.
- Pray for those who have online ministries.
- Pray all believers will not be deceived; give them spirit of discernment. 2 Timothy 3:13
Pray for new believers, Jews and Arabs and others.
- That they will not be intimidated and pressured to turn from following our Messiah.
- Strengthen them.
- Give them mentors.
- Help them be able to gather with one another.
Pray for the many ministries in Israel
- Protection, provision, divine appointments.
- (John 10:3,4) That they would hear God’s voice clearly.
- Boldness in witnessing according to the Spirit.
- Pray for increased faith.
- Pray for spirit of praise over Israel, in places of worship, Messianic music groups and the praise and worship centers.
Continue to Pray for:
– Leah Sharibu and Alice
– Pastor Wang Yi
– Anita
– Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani
– The Harvest
Our dear Sister Valerie will moderate the call tonight.
For His Glory,
Nadia Dybvik, Persecution Watch Prayer Call Leader
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Persecution Watch is a U.S. national prayer conference call ministry that prays specifically for the global Persecuted Church. For over a decade, Blaine Scogin led this national network of believers who faithfully pray for the persecuted and the global harvest for the Kingdom of God.
The group meets via a free call-in service every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday night at 9pm Eastern (please check your time zone). Blaine also served as Prayer Director for Voice of the Persecuted and our missions became one. The prayer mission of Persecution Watch is an important part of our own.
With the passing of Blaine into glory on December 26, 2019, Voice of the Persecuted is committed to continue the prayer conference call for the persecuted along with our dedicated prayer warrior team.
On occasion, persecuted brothers and sisters have been invited on the call to share the trials they’re facing. The team serves to encourage them by washing their feet in Spirit led prayer.
Time is often reserved for those on the call to ask questions. We believe this helps to gain a better understanding of the situation that persecuted Christians endure in their specific nations. Q&A also helps us to focus our prayers based on their current needs.
Persecution Watch also hosts callers who want to pray united from other nations. If your heart is perplexed by the sufferings of our persecuted brothers and sisters, you no longer need to pray alone. We welcome all who desire to pray for the persecuted church and consider it a joy to pray together with you.
If you’re new to the call and can’t find your voice, listen in and pray silently or on mute. We are grateful and thank the Lord for bringing us all together to pray in agreement for our persecuted family in Christ. We can all be prayer warriors on this call!
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Uganda: Family of Assaulted Pastor Attacked Again by Area Muslims
Knee injury of 10-year-old girl attacked in eastern Uganda on Jan. 24, 2021. (Morning Star News)
(Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers on Sunday (Jan. 24) attacked the wife and children of a pastor in eastern Uganda who is still receiving hospital treatment for a previous assault, sources said.
Nearly four weeks after the assault on pastor Moses Nabwana and his wife, Lovisa Naura, in Nankodo Sub-County, Kibuku District on Dec. 27, three area Muslims broke into their home at about 4:20 a.m. on Sunday, injuring two of their children and the mother of eight who is still recovering from the prior beating, she said.
“I heard loud noises and plates being broken. The children and I woke up,” Naura told Morning Star News. “The attackers had broken the door and entered in. One started strangling me, while another threw one of my daughters outside through the window and broke the skin on her leg.”
Her brother-in-law and his family rushed over, and the Muslims fled, she said.
“The assailants left behind a Somali sword, which I think they possibly had planned to use to rape and then kill me,” she said.
Naura said her 10 year-old daughter sustained a deep cut on her knee, and her 12-year-old daughter suffered an eye injury. Naura has neck pain and was still suffering from the prior assault, an area source said.
Previously a group of area Muslims beat Pastor Nabwana with sticks and a blunt object on his head, back, stomach and chest, and he returned to a hospital in Kumi on Jan. 15, Naura said.
“His health condition needs more attention, and preferably an Intensive Care Unit,” she told Morning Star News by phone. “I am still in great pain, and the doctor has recommended that my uterus, which is seriously damaged, needs to be removed. This will need a big amount of money.”
A church leader visited Naura and her family at their thatched-roof dwelling on Friday (Jan. 22). He said they need protection as well as financial assistance.
“She is sill in pain and needs basic assistance in the absence of the husband, the bread-winner,” he said.
So far the church has paid medical bills of about $1,000 for the couple, and the church leader said further medical bills for them will amount to about $950.
Naura had been hospitalized for five days after the previous attack, incited by mosque leaders announcing that a local imam had left Islam for Christianity. A group of Muslims beat her and Pastor Nabwana and demolished parts of their church building.
The former imam, whose name is withheld for security reasons, put his faith in Christ on Dec. 5 and on Dec 27 joined the church worship. The new Christian was given the opportunity to share the journey of how he came to faith in Christ, and when mosque leaders heard the celebration, they announced the apostasy.
The assaults were the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
Pastor, Church Member Die for Proclaiming Christ in Eastern Uganda
Hard-line Muslims beat and drown the two Christians, sources say.
(Morning Star News) – Christians in eastern Uganda had what seemed to be an effective strategy for bringing the gospel to Muslims on the banks of Lake Nakuwa, part of Lake Kyoga.
The Christians from Namuseru village, Gadumire Sub-County in Kaliro District would cross the lake to go fishing and, as they interacted with Muslims near Lugonyola village, become fishers of men, inviting them to evangelistic meetings there.
In time hard-line Muslims began warning the Christians to stop evangelizing in the area, sources said. The last warning came on June 21, a day before radical Muslims from Lugonyola village beat and drowned 25-year-old pastor Peter Kyakulaga and 22-year-old church member Tuule Mumbya in the lake, one of the pastor’s relatives said.
“We have discovered that your mission is not to fish but to hold Christian meetings and then convert Muslims to Christianity,” one of the Muslims told the Christians on June 21, according to the relative. “We are not going to take this mission of yours lightly. This is our last warning to you.”
David Nabyoma, chairperson of the local council from Namuseru village, said Christian friends knocked on his door at 10 p.m. the night of June 22.
“They were requesting help, saying Muslims from Lugonyola had invaded the area around the lakeside, and several Christians were reported to have been injured, including my son,” Nabyoma, a member of the Church of Uganda, told Morning Star News. “Immediately we rushed to the scene of the incident with several Christians. We hired four boats and drove to the lake and found out that two of the Christians had been badly beaten and drowned in the lake and died instantly.”
Pastor Kyakulaga, who led the area Church of Christ congregation, leaves behind his wife and two children, ages 2 and 4. Church member Mumbya is survived by his wife and 2-year-old child.
Christians gathered in Namuseru village early the morning of June 23 to plan retaliation, but local officials spoke to them, called police and cooled tensions, sources said.
Police from Gadumire, Namwiwa and Kaliro stations arrived at the lake area and arrested three suspects. Officers identified them as Sharifu Ngugo, Hassan Mwidu Gulumaire and Jafari Kadisi of Lugonyola village and took them to the Kaliro central police station, a source said.
Police and fishermen searched the lake and found the bodies that day, June 23, he said.
Several government officials, including the district police commander, resident district commissioner and other local leaders condemned the killings, the source said. Church leaders pleaded with Christians to refrain from retaliating and pray.
Hundreds of Christians, including many church leaders from Anglican, Pentecostal, Catholic and other denominations, attended a funeral for the two slain Christians on June 24 in Namuseru village.
The killings were the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
Pakistan: Muslims attack Protestant church in Sheikhupura
At least one wall destroyed and a cross broken. The culprits wanted to take back land already sold to the church. This is a case of reverse blasphemy. For Punjab lawmaker, the cross has value for Christianity and Islam. “Not only was the cross broken, but our hearts were crushed too,” said a local Christian. A group of Muslims attacked the Trinity Pentecostal Church in Hakeem Pura, Sheikhupura district, a few dozen kilometres from Lahore, Punjab. The building, built 22 years ago, was desecrated, a wall destroyed, a cross and other valuables broken. Read More
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Pastor in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Rev. Zakariya Joseph Kurah
ECWA leader attacked with machete blows.
Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Nasarawa state killed last week in Obi was buried [yesterday] in his hometown of Zonkwa, Kaduna state.
Muslim Fulani herdsmen with machetes killed the Rev. Zakariya Joseph Kurah of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) on Thursday (June 30) while he was working at his farm, sources said.
A staff member of the ECWA District Church Council in Lafia, Nasarawa told Morning Star News that he met with the council chairman and relatives of Kurah at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital in Lafia, where police and others brought the corpse from Obi.
“One of them whom I don’t know but was together with the late pastor told us that they were in the bush around 7-7:30 p.m.,” said the staff member, identified only as Moses. “Two people came out and attacked them. Rev. Kurah ran and hid, but they chased him and brutally murdered him with their machetes.”
The assailants took only his phone handset before leaving, Moses said.
“We asked what type of people carried out the murder of the pastor, and the person said the killers were two Fulani Muslims,” he said.
A spokesman for the Obi Local Government Council, Habila Adokwe, told Morning Star News that the killing of the pastor was confirmed but gave no further details.
The Rev. Silas Thomas, former secretary of the ECWA’s Lafia District Church Council, confirmed that the pastor was murdered by Muslim Fulani herdsmen while working at his farm, and that his funeral took place in Zonkwa, Kaduna state today.
“He was a pastor with peaceful disposition,” Thomas told Morning Star News. “He was one of the pastors I worked with while I served as the secretary of ECWA Lafia District Church Council.”
Kurah was a graduate of Jos ECWA Theological Seminary and obtained an M.A. Degree in Pastoral Studies.
A user on Twitter who identified himself as Sam, a nephew of the pastor, stated in a series of Tweets that Kurah was killed by Fulani herdsmen in Obi LGA.
“No one is saying anything about the clandestine killings by Fulani herdsmen happening almost every day,” he said in one of the messages. “Does a life of a Nigerian mean anything to our government?”
Muslim Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa state and Islamist mercenaries from outside Nigeria have attacked villages in neighboring Benue state, killing five Christians in December 2014. The Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa state, with mercenaries from Chad and Niger, razed several villages, destroying homes and church buildings in the predominantly Roman Catholic Agatu Local Government Area and forcing hundreds of Christians to flee.
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Family, Church Buildings Lost in Predominantly Christian E. African Countries
Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Kenya who put his faith in Christ last November has lost his wife and children, and now he fears for his life.
When his wife was hospitalized last October, Abdu Godana, 35, could not have guessed that the healing she received after an evangelist’s prayer would lead to losing her, his 7-year-old son and his 5-year-old daughter.
On the Kenyan side of Moyale, a town that shares a border with Ethiopia, Godana’s wife had received treatment for an unspecified illness for three weeks at Moyale District Hospital without any improvement when he took her home. Soon thereafter they received a visit from an evangelist with the Evangelical Christian Church of Africa (ECCA), who prayed for her.
His wife was not completely healed, but she was able to go about most of her daily activities, and a week later the couple invited the evangelist and two other church leaders to their home. The couple decided to become followers of Jesus after talking and giving thanks with the church leaders, and they began meeting at their home for Bible study and prayer, Godana said.
Early this year, Muslim neighbors reported to Godana’s relatives and those of his wife that the couple had embraced the Christian faith.
Godana’s in-laws began sending him threatening text messages: “You had a Muslim marriage, so it is against Islam to change your faith,” one read. “If you continue in the Christian faith, we shall come and take our daughter.”
In early February, Godana’s in-laws took his wife, he said. His Muslim parents distanced themselves from him, not only because they believed he had disgraced the family by leaving Islam, but because in losing his wife he had lost the dowry for her that they had provided.
Two weeks later, his in-laws returned and took away his children, he said.
His own family members are now threatening him. “Your life is at stake if you still hold on to the Christian faith,” one relative told him.
Godana has become depressed under a continuing barrage of text messages from his in-laws, including demands for payment for medical follow-up care, he said. One text read, “We have continued treating our daughter, and now we demand that you pay us the money that we have used for her treatment.”
“I am spending sleepless nights as the pressure from my wife’s family is being directed toward me,” he said. “I am also fearing for my life.”
Church Buildings Razed in Ethiopia
Across the border in Siraro District of Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, in East Shewa Zone about 150 miles south of Addis Ababa, Feb. 15 rioting by predominantly Muslim Oromo Arsi destroyed 14 church buildings, Christian leaders said.
More than 2,000 Christians have been left without worship venues after throngs of Oromo Arsi, protesting that the government was marginalizing them and that Christians were converting Muslims, burned 10 Kale Heywet Church (KHC, Word of Life) buildings and four others.
The KHC buildings burned were in Sabate with 110 church members, Loke Kecha with 70 members, Kate with 90 members, Bilitu with 350 members, Siraro, Chaticha with 200 members, Subuka with the 420 members, Shashamane with 30 members, Kenva with 150 members and Torban-Anshwa with 50 members.
Also torched were the buildings of Sabate Catholic Church with 250 members, Sabate Full Gospel Church with 330 members, Loke Kecha Orthodox Church with 100 members and Bilitu Orthodox Church with 500 members, according to Christian leaders, who requested anonymity for security reasons.
“We have been worshipping outside and sitting on the bare ground bearing the hot sun,” said a KHC leader. “We appeal to our brothers elsewhere to come and assist us. The attackers poured petrol and were chanting “Allahu Akbar [God is greater]” before setting the church building on fire.”
A month before the attacks in predominantly Muslim Siraro District, anonymous leaflets warned churches to stop converting Muslims to Christianity, said another area church leader. As demonstrations were taking place in Siraro town on Feb. 15 with anti-government and anti-Christian chants, Muslims in several villages began burning the 14 church buildings throughout Siraro District, church leaders said.
A cemetery belonging to Sabate Catholic Church was also damaged.
Police have arrested several suspects.
Ethiopia’s population is 60 percent Christian and 34 percent Muslim, according to Operation World. Kenya’s population is nearly 83 percent Christian and 8 percent Muslim, although nominalism among the Christian population is considered widespread.
Christians ‘face growing extremist persecution’ in mainly Muslim part of Philippines
Christians in a predominantly Muslim part of the mainly Catholic Philippines are targets of extremist Islamist groups and face persecution similar to their fellow believers in the Middle East, says a missionary priest.
“The situation is a worrying one,” said Father Sebastiano D’Ambra in a interview with Aid to the Church in Need, referring to the anti-Christian attacks that took place on Christmas Day in the south of Mindanao.
In an interview with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Father Sebastiano D’Ambra highlighted fears of radicalization in parts of the Philippines after 14 people were killed during attacks on Christmas Day.
The attack included a grenade being thrown at a chapel.
“It is difficult to establish for certain whether the violence was directed specifically against Christians, even though everything points to the fact that this was the case.
“Without doubt our brothers and sisters in the faith are one of the targets of these fundamentalist groups,” said D’Ambra who belongs to the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.) congregation.
“In some areas of Mindanao we are experiencing exactly the same thing as is happening in Iraq,” said the Italian priest who has been in the Philippines nearly 50 years and is an experienced missionary. Read More
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