"Pro-Life Students Will Take Vow of Silence to Speak Up for the Unborn," - by Lauren Enriquez | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 10/9/13 http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/09/pro-life-students-will-take-vow-of-silence-to-speak-up-for-the-unborn/
"Next Tuesday, October 15, students across America will participate in a day of solidarity to show their respect for life. The “Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity” is an outlet for students to express their pro-life views without using words or engaging in arguments. Pro-life students who will forego speaking on October 15 will also honor with their silence the members of their generation (including anyone born after the legalization of abortion on-demand in America in 1973 with the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade) who were never allowed to be born...." [italics and underline my emphasis]
URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS:
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: "Syrian Christians Brace for Strike, Ask for Prayer," - by Gary Lane, August 31, http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/August/Syrian-Christians-Brace-for-Strike-Ask-for-Prayer/"As Syrians brace themselves for a possible U.S. military attack, many of the county's Christians are praying for divine intervention. They say military action against the Assad regime will only bring them greater hardship and suffering and they're asking Christians worldwide to pray that God intervenes to bring peace to their nation. They believe the collective prayers of Christians around the world could reverse an escalating conflict..."
[EGYPT - Continue to pray for the tense situation in Egypt and especially for the Christian believers who are being targeted with violence by Muslim Brotherhood members.]
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.]
Vigils Mark One Year Imprisonment of Pastor Saeed - CBNNews.com, Thursday, September 26, 2013 - Today marks one-year that American pastor Saeed Abedini has been held in an Iranian prison. He is serving an eight-year sentence because of his Christian faith. It has been a year of torment as he has suffered beatings, physical pain from untreated medical conditions, and separation from his wife and two children... The suffering has not dampened his passion for Jesus. Pastor Abedini has led more than 30 prisoners to Christ during his time in prison. This afternoon, thousands of Americans from coast to coast will pray for his release. Events will be held in 40 states at capitols, city halls, parks and churches. Thousands more will join from 15 nations around the world
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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From The Presidential Prayer Team (not associated with the Administration) "Insight Edition for Prayer" for Oct. 10-26, 2013; PrayerTeam@Presidential-Prayer-Team.org ;
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From The Presidential Prayer Team (not associated with the Administration) "Insight Edition for Prayer" for Oct. 10-26, 2013; PrayerTeam@Presidential-Prayer-Team.org
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) called for the House to seek a ‘small bargain’ to resolve the fiscal crisis gripping Washington, focusing on ideas both parties have agreed to in the past.
Senator Rob Portman (Ohio) is circulating a plan to cut federal spending and reform the U.S. tax code as part of a broader plan to reopen the shuttered government and provide the Treasury with more borrowing power.
1) Pray for a negotiated resolution to the budget and debt ceiling issues before the October 17 default date. 2) Pray that Senator Portman's efforts will prove successful in some form.
JUDICIAL PRAYER FOCUS
The Supreme Court’s new term which began Monday (Oct. 7) will consider cases involving abortion rights, affirmative action, public prayer and presidential power, among many others that put important precedents at risk.
Pray for wisdom and discernment for the nine Supreme Court Justices as they hear arguments and make their rulings; that they will be restrained to interpret the Constitution and not make new law by judicial activism.
THE WARS
For the families of four U.S. soldiers killed by insurgents in Afghanistan this week, the partial U.S. government shutdown has not provided the usual travel expenses to Dover to claim their fallen; private funds have met the need.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ruled out signing a security deal with the U.S. until disagreements over sovereignty are resolved. He angrily accused the U.S. and NATO of occupation “using our people and villages.”
Pray 1) that the families of the fallen and all those on active duty and veterans of our military will be properly provided for, and 2) that America will stand by what is best for its national security interests even as it seeks to work with the hostile leaders of Afghanistan and elsewhere.
TERRORISM
U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Al Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups could carve out a haven in Syria that will offer the kind of sanctuary they once enjoyed in northwestern Pakistan.
Libyan jihadist groups have called for revenge attacks against the U.S. and Western interests in that North African nation following the elite U.S. counterterrorism unit’s [recent] capture of a high-profile Libyan Al Qaeda leader.
Pray that America's leaders will make wise decisions about the policies of the United States relative to growing Islamism and jihadism in Africa and the Middle East.
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Iran is preparing to offer to limit its production of nuclear fuel in exchange for an easing of international sanctions at a conference scheduled to take place next week in Geneva. Israel’s Intelligence Minister called the offer ‘a joke.’
"Iran’s Defiant Nuclear Expansion Raises Bar for Geneva Talks" (10/11/201)
When the U.N. Security Council first imposed sanctions on Iran in 2006 to try to make it halt its nuclear activity, the Islamic state had a nascent uranium enrichment program with a couple of hundred centrifuges it was testing.
Seven years later - a period which has seen the major oil producer come under increasing international punitive measures - it has installed more than 19,000 such machines for processing uranium, which can have both civilian and military purposes. The figures, from quarterly reports by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, demonstrate Iran’s determination to press ahead with a project it says is peaceful but which the West fears is aimed at developing the capability to assemble atomic bombs. At the same time, it has amassed stocks of low- and medium-enriched uranium gas - 6.8 tons and 186 kg respectively - that experts say would be enough for several bombs if processed further to weapons-grade material.
The sanctions are taking a heavy toll on Iran’s economy - its daily earnings from oil sales have tumbled 60 percent since 2011 to $100 million - but they have not stopped its nuclear push.
World powers hope to persuade Iran at talks in Geneva on October 15-16 to scale back its uranium enrichment. It is no longer considered realistic to expect Tehran to agree to suspend all enrichment, as demanded by the Security Council. Despite a more moderate tone from Iran under new President Hassan Rouhani, Vienna-based diplomats say they see no clear indication so far that Iran is putting the brakes on its nuclear drive.(Sources: Reuters, New York Times)
Pray about the meeting next week in Geneva [15th-16th] that holds the potential for lifting some sanctions against Iran. ALSO, pray about the capacity of Iran for weapons beyond its capacity for nuclear-powered electricity generation.
[bold, italics, and underline emphasis mine]
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