URGENT PRAYER REQUEST- Update on Kenneth Bae: "US Ready to Bargain with N. Korea for Bae's Release,"- CBNNews.com, Aug 14, 2013 http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/August/S-Ready-to-Bargain-with-N-Korea-for-Baes-Release/ - The United States is willing to engage North Korea to secure the release of imprisoned American Christian Kenneth Bae. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the United States is "willing to consider a number of different options" to bring him home.In a video recently released by a North Korean newspaper, Bae requested the United States send a high-ranking official to North Korea to seek his pardon. It is unclear if he spoke of his own volition in the video. Bae, 45, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for sharing his faith. He suffers health problems such as diabetes and is currently hospitalized.[PRAY for 1) God's healing of and presence with Pastor Bae, 2) His earliest release by the North Korean government, and 3) God's comfort for his family and friends.]
“Abandoned” For Christ" - Graham Calls On White House To Support Abedini - By Dr. Tom Askew, Aug.8, http://www.presidentialprayerteam.com/opinion
Franklin Graham is the latest to join the chorus of voices calling for U.S. State Department and White House officials to take a more vocal role in protesting the Iranian imprisonment of American pastor Saeed Abedini. September 26 will mark the one year anniversary of Abedini’s imprisonment for allegedly “endangering the national security” of Iran.
Graham pointed out that, in contrast to Iranian accusations, “Pastor Saeed was in Iran trying to help children. With the permission of Iran’s government, he was working to build an orphanage. But his humanitarian mission led to an arrest on bogus charges and nearly a year of inhumane treatment, simply because he loves Jesus Christ.”...
Behind the scenes, more than 600,000 people around the world have signed a petition sponsored by ACLJ in support of pastor Abedini. A concerted movement this past May brought together Christians from many nations to set aside Pentecost to pray for Abedini. On June 13, demonstrations were held at Iranian embassies in at least six countries to protest Abedini’s treatment. And, on July 29, Arizona Republican Representative Trent Franks spoke on the floor of the House to urge other Congressmen to join him in “adopting” Pastor Abedini through the bipartisan Defending Freedoms Project.
Saeed’s response…and yours - Through his family living in Iran, Pastor Abedini has been made aware of these efforts on his behalf, and is grateful. “I heard that the persecution, my arrest and imprisonment has united churches from different denominations, from different cities and countries. That the churches have united together in prayer to put one request (my freedom) on one day (Pentecost) before God,” he wrote in a letter.
The story of Saeed Abedini, the jihad against Syrian Christians, the attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, and the ongoing desecration of churches in Nigeria and India should cause every American to reflect on the blessings of freedom still enjoyed in this nation.
PRAY: - For comfort and peace for Saeed’s wife and children here in the U.S.
- For a strong witness and testimony from Pastor Abedini in the prison where God has placed him
- For Christians around the world who are being persecuted for their faith in Christ
- BOLDly (Beside Our Leaders Daily) for leadership from the White House and State Department in defending the freedoms of Abedini and other Americans
Go to SaveSaeed.org to sign a petition over 600,000 others asking for his immediate release.
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"Obama’s Legacy: Pro-Abortion President or Catalyst for Pro-Life Action?," - by Susan Michelle Tyrrell |LifeNews.com | 8/29/13; http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/29/obamas-legacy-pro-abortion-president-or-catalyst-for-pro-life-action/[AS I SEE IT - In President Obama, I hear again what God said through Joseph: "You [Satan] intended to harm me [the unborn], but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."(Gen. 50:20) Join me in PRAYING even now, that as a result of next year's elections, we will have a solidly pro-life US Senate and after the election of 2016, a passionately pro-life President. If all of that results in just ONE less baby being murdered through abortion in America, than it will have been well worth seeing happen. - Stan]
Remember those times Barack Obama was elected as president of the United States and a bunch of pro-lifers insisted that abortion would expand under his hands and it was the end of the world? Yeah. That didn’t happen.
Make no mistake: His abortion record speaks for itself and it’s not a very pretty picture. His affection toward Planned Parenthood is almost embarrassing, and his support for abortion rights is unlike any president we have seen. But the thing about extremists is that they tend to prick the consciences of others — in both directions — and in this case, history will show that electing a pro-abortion president probably helped the cause of the pro-life movement more than if we hadn’t.
The Huffington Post reports on this phenomena in this article, entitled, “Anti-Abortion Laws Take Dramatic Toll On Clinics Nationwide,” which details the increased number of abortion clinic closing “since a heavy wave of legislative attacks on providers began in 2010, according to The Huffington Post’s nationwide survey of state health departments, abortion clinics and local abortion-focused advocacy groups.”
The story reports: "At least 54 abortion providers across 27 states have shut down or ended their abortion services in the past three years, and several more clinics are only still open because judges have temporarily blocked legislation that would make it difficult for them to continue to operate."
And even the abortion industry says this isn’t the usual ebb and flow of business: “This kind of change is incredibly dramatic,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. “What we’ve been seeing since 1982 was a slow decline, but this kind of change … [is] so different from what’s happened in the past.”
Indeed, this dramatic decrease in abortion facilities, is such a tragedy to the abortion industry that NARAL, one of the most vocal abortion rights groups n the nation, thinks it’s having a very bad dream.“This has turned into a nightmare,” said Kat Sabine, executive director of NARAL’s Arizona affiliate. “The kind of efforts the women have to take to get family planning or abortion services are just incredible, and you can only get care if you can get out of the community to do it. If you’re on a reservation or rural part of the state, unless you have reliable transportation, you’re not going to get care.” The report continues to detail other alleged problems like the (very reasonable in all other aspects of medicine) norm of waiting periods between an abortion consultation and an abortion, noting 26 states require at least 24 hour waiting periods. But abortion advocates call the access to abortion a problem of equality for woman too, saying some women can afford to take off work, have reliable cars to travel to get abortions, and have other access to some lofty “abortion privilege.”
The reality is that the abortion industry wants an “all abortion all the time” clause so that every woman who even has a passing thought about abortion can be hustle to a corner clinic and kill the baby before the mom has time to actually ponder her decision. In no other industry is an impulsive life-altering decisions encouraged but in abortion. It’s a shame to us as a culture that we have come to encourage such things without thought or reflection, as if we have become a nation of abortion automatons.
When President Obama was elected the first time in 2008, pro-lifers reacted swiftly, and by the 2010 midterm elections, hope and change had actually come in the form of pro-lifers fighting for the rights of the unborn and enacting legislation that would battle the new president’s abortion support.
Only history will tell of the ultimate outcome, but so far the winner of the 2008 and 2012 elections was actually the unborn, some of whom got to live because sleepy people woke up from the reality that we had just elected someone who supported virtually all abortion.
While we long for pro-life leaders who help work with us to shape laws rather than those against whom we have to work to create new laws, we must realize that sometimes what seems to be the end is just the beginning. We have an opportunity to continue working so that after 2016 we will look back and see that, indeed, the nation’s most pro-life years post-Roe. V. Wade were actually the 8 years we were led by a man who supported abortion in all forms.
[bold and italics emphasis mine]
NOTE: Susan Michelle Tyrrell is the editor of Bound4Life’s blog. This column originally appeared at Live Action News.
"Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Has Closed 24 Clinics in 2013," - by Cheryl Sullenger | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/23/13 http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/23/planned-parenthood-abortion-business-has-closed-23-clinics-in-2013/ "Planned Parenthood offices across the nation have closed this year at a record rate, according to data compiled by Operation Rescue. At least 24 Planned Parenthood sites have closed in so far in 2013. This number includes 3 surgical abortion clinics, 3 clinics that dispensed abortion pills, and 19 offices that referred for abortions...."
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