"Holy Father, Triune God, we cry to you in Lord Jesus' name; please protect our sisters and brothers in Egypt, in the Middle East, in Africa (Nigeria) and in other places". We pray for peace and good relations and friendship in Egypt between all people. Pray for the ancient Christian minority:
EGYPTEN:
http://www.meforum.org/3414/egypt-christians-caught-in-the-middle
"While the conflict in Egypt has largely been portrayed as a conflict between secular Egyptians -- or "moderate Muslims" who oppose full-blown Sharia -- and Islamists, led by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, who want a Taliban-style Sharia to govern the nation, largely missed have been the people in the middle, the Christian Copts, who find themselves in an especially awkward position....
A video that recently surfaced in Egypt shows Salafi Muslims holding an Egyptian man whose hands are tied behind his back under arrest in an alley. They grab him by the collar, interrogating and threatening him, humiliating him by poking and slapping him in the face and calling him "boy"—all as they try to determine if he is a Christian and as he insists "No, I'm a Muslim!" One of his captors can be heard saying "Can you imagine if he turns out to be a Christian?" implying that would be the end of him. ---
Then of course there was the case of Mina Philip, one of the protesters who was stripped of his clothes and beat into a bloody pulp by the Egyptian president's Islamic supporters. OnTube, the Egyptian Internet channel complementing ONTV, recently showed the gruesome images of Philip's torture, including, in the host's words, how "Mina Philip was dragged through the streets by a Muslim Brotherhood mob who took off his clothes and beat him, accusing him of being a thug, while in fact he is an engineer who works for an international telecommunications company." Läs hela texten (och det är svårt) i länken.
(Middle East Forum/Gatestone Institute)
Petition to defend Egypt's Christians:
http://aclj.org/radical-islam/stop-genocide-christians-egypt?sf7318059=1
ACLJ
ISRAEL:
ECI Christmas message 2012 (via Tomas Sandell):
http://www.ec4i.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175%3Aeci-christmas-message-2012&catid=74%3Apress-releases&Itemid=53
-‘There would be no Christmas celebrations without the Jewish people’, ECI Director Tomas Sandell said in a statement in Helsinki on Thursday. ‘The New Testament clearly states that “salvation is from the Jews”. (John 4:22) The birth of Jesus, the Son of David, is the ultimate gift of the Jewish people to the world. Jesus (Yeshua) was born in Bethlehem in Judea to Jewish parents, Joseph and Mary (Miriam). He was circumcised on the eighth day, according to Jewish tradition, and later consecrated to the Lord in the Temple in Jerusalem. As Christians, we are forever grateful for the faith and perseverance of the Jewish people in helping to bring forth this ultimate gift to mankind. In their darkest hours, they did not give up, but persevered, knowing that “those who walked in darkness, have seen a great light.”’(European Coalition for Israel)
MELLANÖSTERN:
"American pastor imprisoned"
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/19/american-pastor-imprisoned-without-notice-charges-while-visiting-family-in-iran/
(Foxnews)
Wife of pastor jailed in Iran speaks out:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2053073369001/wife-of-pastor-jailed-in-iran-speaks-out/?playlist_id=940325739001
AFRIKA (NIGERIA)
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=prayer&id=444
Christian Solidarity Worldwide: "Ask God to particularly protect churches and Christians in northern and central Nigeria in the lead up to the Christmas period, and during Christmas and New Year services."
5 Mos. 10:14 "Se himlarna och himlarnas himmel, jorden och allt som är på den tillhör HERREN, din Gud". Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it." (Deut. 10:14 ESV)
Ef. 3:20-21 "Han som förmår göra långt mer än allt vi ber om eller tänker, genom den kraft som mäktigt verkar i oss, honom tillhör äran i församlingen och i Kristus Jesus, genom alla släktled i evigheternas evighet, amen." Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." (Eph. 3:20-21 ESV)
"Es ist ein Ros entsprungen":
Cyberbrethen: "O King of nations, come"
http://cyberbrethren.com/2012/12/22/o-king-of-nations-come/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Cyberbrethren+%28Cyberbrethren%29
President Peres wishes Christians a Merry Christmas:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2012/Merry-Christmas-20-Dec-2012.htm#.UNQDoiFNQUM.facebook
President Peres: “It is for me a privilege, as president of the State of Israel, to send profound wishes on behalf of all of Israel for a Happy Christmas to the whole Christian world and to express the hope that the Middle East may enter an era of peace and prosperity.”
Earlier: http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2012/07/grace-of-lord-jesus.html
"You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." 2 Cor. 8:9
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’" Matt. 25:35-36 (ESV)
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