Girls of 13 pressured to pose for home-made blue movies
Girls as young as 13 are facing pressure to appear in home-made porn movies, teachers warned yesterday. Young teenagers are also submitting to demands from boys for explicit photos which are often shared among friends and even placed on the internet for millions to view. A conference was told yesterday how easy access to depraved online content is destroying children’s innocence and changing how they perceive themselves and others. Delegates warned that lads’ mags, the surge in explicit ‘mummy porn’ novels, exposure to inappropriate movies and the depiction of women in computer games are also contributing to a dramatic moral decline among the young. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool warned that pornography and other depraved imagery was becoming part of everyday life. Delegates called for sex education classes to be used to explain to pupils that the behaviour they see online is not normal and the ‘perfect’ bodies they see are usually unattainable.
Pray: against those who are presurising the young to get involved in pornography. (Ps.140:4)
The Crucial Issue of Pirs
Pirs are persons who have spiritual power from below and who have control over geographical areas and people that they control spiritually, e.g. over the Taliban and suicide bombers. If the gospel of Jesus Christ is going to be freed to shine in Pakistan, then these demonic principalities and the power of these pirs have to be cast down. If we are afraid of terrorism, then the demonic powers held by pirs have to be overcome. Praying against these pirs is a high calling. It is high spiritual warfare. The battle is won or lost right here.
The Chief of the Muslim League (Functional) and also a religious leader is Pir Sahib Pagara. Pray Pir Pigara will not be put in place as the interim Prime Minister who will hold all power during this month. The Pakistan Muslim league under Nawaz Sharif has had meetings with the Pakistan Muslim league faction following Pir Pagara to form an alliance. Pray that these fractions stay hopelessly divided.
Previously Pakistan has always had conventional governments. Much of the present government is made up of pirs. From the highest official in the land down through his cabinet and other ruling members, the government is made up either of pirs themselves or of people who are dependent on pirs for advice. Pir Pigara coming into power would be an "open door" for spiritism and Shamanism. So it is very important to pray and intercede for these elections.
PIR / Shrine sites and festivals
Syed Jalal-ud-Din Bukhari - Uch Sharif - March 29-31
Uch Sharif is the central place of pirs from which evil spreads out across the nation. This festival will have people from across the nation and will last longer than three days. Pray there will be confusion and evil will not be transmitted. Demonic evil has to be stopped in this central place first.
Sharp rise in number of homeless families
Government figures released last week show a sharp increase in the number of homeless families over the past year. In 2012, 34,080 households with children were accepted as homele ss, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year. At the end of 2012, 76,790 children were living in temporary accommodation, an annual increase of 11 per cent. Currently every fifteen minutes another family find themselves homeless. The figures also show an increase in the number of families living in bed and breakfast accommodation, up 29 per cent since the same time last year. Official guidance to local authorities says bed and breakfast temporary accommodation should be avoided ‘wherever possible’. Lack of privacy, inadequate provision for cooking and washing means it is ‘not suitable’ for families with children or for pregnant women ‘unless there is no alternative accommodation available and then only for a maximum of six weeks.’
Pray: for all those who are facing the difficulties of homelessness that suitable accommodation will be found and they will come to realise that God will be their provider. (Ps.104:1-3)
Diane Abbott calls for purge of 'sexualised' imagery
Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott has called for a purge of sexualised imagery from public spaces in the UK. ‘I think it has reached a point where we need to detox our High Streets, and make Britain a family friendly country again,’ she told the Mumsnet website. She also blamed a ‘disturbing’ trend for online bullying of young women on a ‘crisis in masculinity’. Ms Abbott plans to make a speech on the issue. ‘I think we need to clear our public spaces of the worst elements of unrestrained markets - including addressing music videos that blare out at us and our children. The online bullying including problems around 'sexting' and 'slut-shaming'; the huge billboards that have very sexualised images of women that loom over our public spaces and the sexualised figures of women in films that are now commonplace. For me the key is putting parents back in control and also putting open-minded family values back in our public spaces’ Ms Abbot says.
Pray: for significant progress to be made on this issue with a cross-party response in Parliament. (Gal.5:19)
More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21878027
