Many
West Bank communities are facing acute water shortage that has lasted for
months. In the Salfit, Jenin and Hebron governorates, some villages have gone
as long as 40 days in a row without running water. Israel implements a policy
of water cuts on Palestinian territories each summer, but this year, it reached
an unprecedented peak.
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Lord,
open the heavens and let your mercy rain down upon our fields and mountains in
this dry land, as our neighbors have stolen our water and left us thirsty. Lord
in your mercy…
Around
the world, the month of October is dedicated to raise awareness on Breast
Cancer. The Palestinian city of Ramallah turned pink as many initiatives were launched
to raise money for a much needed mobile clinic. The clinic will help early
cancer diagnose in the West Bank isolated communities. Breast cancer is the
leading cause of death for women in Palestine. Also, Gaza has only four
mammography machines – one of which is out of order – for a population of two
million.
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Lord,
on the cross you worried about your mother (John 19:27).We pray for our
mothers, sisters, daughters and wives who are struggling with breast cancer. We
ask you to strengthen them and give them healing in body and spirit. Lord in
your mercy…
On the
twenty seventh of October a video was released showing Israeli soldiers in the
occupied West Bank throwing stones at Palestinian schoolchildren in the village
of al-Tuwani. TheIsraeli soldiers are supposed to protect the children from
attacks from Israeli settlers in the area, but instead, as the video shows, the
soldiers throwing stones towards the children.
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Lord,
the way to school for Palestinian children is dangerous and filled with traps. The
soldiers have no mercy and are lost. Lord, grant us courage to open the eyes of
the oppressor and make change.Lord in your mercy…
Christians
are returning with the hope to rebuild destroyed structures as well as their
lives as Iraq's largest Christian-majority town of Qaraqosh has been liberated
from the Islamic State. The majority Assyrian Christian population in Qaraqosh,
a town 20 miles southeast of Mosul, use Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke,
for worship services. There were about 50,000 Christians in the town before the
Islamic State captured it two years ago.
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Lord,
we wish to remember the people of Iraq who have been experiencing increasing
levels of violence in the past years. Merciful God, we see the deep fractures
in this society and the intense pain caused when neighbor rises up against
neighbor. We pray that your love and peace would prevail, that your presence
would unite the people of Iraq in mutual understanding, and that the bloodshed
would come to an end. Lord in your mercy…
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