International Prayer Connections
Afghanistan - prayers for the security situation
Afghanistan continues to be plagued by suicide attacks, violence and war. Recently more than 100 army and police personnel were killed within a three-day rampage. Government and media offices as well as significant leaders were also targeted. The terrorist groups mainly responsible for this are the Taliban, ISIS and the…
'Only God can save us': Yemeni children starve as aid is held at border
Iona Craig in Aden, Sana’a, Taiz and Hodeidah Abdulaziz al-Husseinya lies skeletal and appears lifeless in a hospital in Yemen’s western port city of Hodeidah. At the age of nine, he weighs less than one and a half stone, and is one of hundreds of thousands of children in the…
Saudi Arabia recently reopened two key ports in Yemen. That won’t prevent a famine
For the past few weeks, Saudi Arabia has made it almost impossible to get food to Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world. Yemen became an independent state in 1990, after gaining its sovereignty from The United Kingdom. The population of Yemen is 24,771,809 (2012). Yemen shares land…
SPOTLIGHT: Critical situation in Yemen
We are focusing a special spotlight this month on the very needy Middle East country of Yemen. We would encourage our prayer partners to join with us as we intercede for the complex situation there. Yemen, the birthplace of algebra, has a long history of trade in frankincense and myrrh…
