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In the days and weeks leading up to Easter and Christmas, we invite you to join us in praying for persecuted Christians with a daily issue to help focus you prayers.
Praying for the Persecuted Church 2013 booklet.
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| Lent Prayer 2013 - Resurrection to Glory | (31.768319, 35.21370999999999) | #South and East Asia##Bangladesh##Holy Land# | 2013-03-31 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Resurrection to GloryIn this booklet we have told the story of Christians who suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution because of their faith in Christ. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Vietnam | (14.058324, 108.277199) | #South and East Asia##Vietnam# | 2013-03-30 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Martyrs | (28.150305095448562, 28.725887000000057) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Nigeria##Syria##Egypt##Kenya# | 2013-03-29 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - MartyrsOne Sunday morning in 2012 a car driven by two men drew up at a church compound in the Nigerian city of Jos just as the second service of the morning was beginning. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Uzbekistan | (41.377491, 64.58526200000006) | #Central Asia##Uzbekistan# | 2013-03-28 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - UzbekistanKeeping Christian books and Bibles in one’s home in Uzbekistan can be extremely dangerous. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Turkmenistan | (38.969719, 59.55627800000002) | #Central Asia##Turkmenistan# | 2013-03-27 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - TurkmenistanIn August 2012 five Christians in the Lebap region of Turkmenistan were taken to court and fined for taking part in unregistered religious activity. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Turkey | (39.11138682908068, 34.674217750000025) | #Middle East and North Africa##Turkey# | 2013-03-26 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Tunisia | (33.886917, 9.537499000000025) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Tunisia# | 2013-03-25 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Elderly | (33.854721, 35.86228499999993) | #Middle East and North Africa##Lebanon# | 2013-03-24 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - ElderlyWhen Christians live in contexts of pressure and persecution, the elderly may suffer particularly acutely. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Tajikistan | (38.861034, 71.27609299999995) | #Central Asia##Tajikistan# | 2013-03-23 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - TajikistanChristian worship and witness are tightly controlled by the government of Tajikistan. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Syria | (34.80207499999999, 38.99681499999997) | #Middle East and North Africa##Syria# | 2013-03-22 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Sudan | (14.593032784198108, 30.146796999999992) | #Africa##Sudan# | 2013-03-21 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Sri Lanka | (7.873053999999999, 80.77179699999999) | #South and East Asia##Sri Lanka# | 2013-03-20 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Somalia | (3.340707358376701, 44.49844350000001) | #Africa##Somalia# | 2013-03-19 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Saudi Arabia | (23.566515199373878, 45.55313100000001) | #Middle East and North Africa##Saudi Arabia# | 2013-03-18 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia is one of the most rigid, hardline and authoritarian states in the world, and it makes virtually no provision for religious freedom. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Converts | (25.802374309549414, 43.97109975000001) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##South and East Asia##Central Asia# | 2013-03-17 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - ConvertsLast year a handwritten note was slipped under the door of a church leader in northern Cameroon. Sent by a militant Islamist group, it called on all Christian converts to... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Russia | (61.52401, 105.31875600000001) | #Russian Federation# | 2013-03-16 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - RussiaOn 6 September 2012 a Pentecostal church building in Moscow was torn down by the authorities during the night. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Pakistan | (30.375321, 69.34511599999996) | #South and East Asia##Pakistan# | 2013-03-15 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - PakistanRimsha Masih’s life was torn apart when she was falsely accused of blasphemy, beaten and arrested in August 2012. Rimsha, who is 14 and thought to have a lower mental age... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - North Korea | (40.339852, 127.51009299999998) | #South and East Asia##Korea, North# | 2013-03-14 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - North KoreaNorth Korea is regularly named as the worst country in the world in which to be a Christian. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Nigeria | (9.723758731245098, 8.713851750000003) | #Africa##Nigeria# | 2013-03-13 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Nigeria“The gunmen were asking students if they were Christians or Muslims, and then asked Christian victims to deny Christ. Christian students who refused to do so were killed...” |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Niger | (17.406812385258554, 9.416976750000003) | #Africa##Niger# | 2013-03-12 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - NigerAn armed policeman guarded the preacher in the pulpit; another ten officers sat spread among the congregation; two stood watch at the church entrance, and a police car patrolled... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Nepal | (28.394857, 84.124008) | #South and East Asia##Nepal# | 2013-03-11 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - NepalNepal is a Hindu nation where Christians are “not welcome”. A chairman of a Christian federation in Nepal was told this on the phone by a Hindu extremist in the summer of 2012. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Women | (25.730605530713284, 63.50383399999998) | #South and East Asia##Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Pakistan##Egypt##Myanmar, Burma##Sudan# | 2013-03-10 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - WomenAt 15 years old, Nadia Naira’s life changed forever. Nadia, a Pakistani Christian girl, was abducted at gunpoint, forcibly converted to Islam and married to her Muslim abductor. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Mali | (17.570692, -3.9961660000000165) | #Africa##Mali# | 2013-03-09 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Mali“Horrible crimes have been made against the population: massacres, rape of women, obligation to wear the veil, chasing Christians,” a Barnabas Fund contact commented... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Maldives | (4.174199, 73.51091500000007) | #South and East Asia##Maldives# | 2013-03-08 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - MaldivesThis desirable tourist destination is anything but a paradise for the islands’ non-Muslim residents. The island nation has become even more religiously intolerant... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Libya | (19.85627, 102.495496) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Libya# | 2013-03-07 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Laos | (19.85627, 102.495496) | #South and East Asia##Lao, People's Democratic Republic# | 2013-03-06 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - LaosTake part in an animist ritual to renounce their Christian faith or leave their village. This choice was placed before six Christian families on 18 October 2012 in Allowmai... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Kyrgyzstan | (48.019573, 66.92368399999998) | #Central Asia##Kyrgyzstan# | 2013-03-05 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - KyrgyzstanSince 2010, Kyrgyzstan has endured a period of considerable political instability. Although a new constitution was introduced that guaranteed religious freedom... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Kenya | (40.61423482198549, 69.20884024999998) | #Africa##Kenya# | 2013-03-04 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Kenya“The gun shots in the compound made worshippers run out in panic only to the waiting killers.” |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Pastors & Evangelists | (40.61423482198549, 69.20884024999998) | #Central Asia##South and East Asia##India##Kyrgyzstan##Pakistan##Uzbekistan##Kazakhstan# | 2013-03-03 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Pastors & EvangelistsTarbele, a pastor in Pakistan who has led 21 families to faith in Christ, spoke of the danger he endures for the Lord’s sake. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Kazakhstan | (48.019573, 66.92368399999998) | #Central Asia##Kazakhstan# | 2013-03-02 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - KazakhstanLast year Aleksei Asetov, leader of a small unregistered church in Ekibastuz in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan, was fined about 18 months of the average local wage for... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Iraq | (32.743046983501536, 43.53949275000002) | #Iraq##Middle East and North Africa# | 2013-03-01 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - IraqIraqi Christians are running out of safe havens, both in their homeland and in other countries. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Iran | (32.427908, 53.688045999999986) | #Middle East and North Africa##Iran# | 2013-02-28 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Indonesia | (-6.2333333, 107) | #South and East Asia##Indonesia# | 2013-02-27 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - IndonesiaSewage, rotten eggs and sticks were hurled at a Christian congregation as they gathered for an outdoor service. On 20 May 2012, a mob of 400 angry Islamists in Bekasi, West Java... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - India | (23.15556950410286, 79.2265625) | #South and East Asia##India# | 2013-02-26 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - IndiaA pastor and his family beaten; a prayer meeting broken up; Christians forced from their village by a mob; children threatened and abused; a church building attacked... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Holy Land | (31.768319, 35.21370999999999) | #Middle East and North Africa##Holy Land# | 2013-02-25 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Holy Land“If things remain like this, there’ll be no Christians left in Gaza.” With these words a Christian woman living in the Gaza Strip in July 2012 voiced her concern for the future... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Children | (28.532811449436142, 67.01343550000001) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Central Asia##South and East Asia##Kenya##Pakistan##Egypt# | 2013-02-24 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - ChildrenChildren have an honoured place within the Christian family. In the Gospels, Jesus strongly affirms them in a culture where they are undervalued... |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Eritrea | (16.21088946404219, 38.361091750000014) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Eritrea# | 2013-02-23 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - EritreaIncarcerated in metal shipping containers with extreme temperature changes; forbidden to pray aloud, sing, preach or have a Bible; tortured to make them recant their faith. |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Egypt | (26.820553, 30.802498000000014) | #Middle East and North Africa##Africa##Egypt# | 2013-02-22 00:01:00 | |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Cuba | (21.521757, -77.78116699999998) | #Cuba# | 2013-02-21 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - Cuba“Don’t be fooled by appearances. Many … won’t speak out about this because of fear. If they speak out in Cuba, there will be consequences.” |
| Lent Prayer 2013 - Colombia | (4.570868, -74.29733299999998) | #South America##Colombia# | 2013-02-20 00:01:00 |
 Lent Prayer 2013 - ColombiaHenry Rodriguez, a Christian pastor in Bogota, was leaving his church after a Sunday afternoon service when he was shot dead by two men on a moped. |
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Lent Prayer 2013 - Resurrection to Glory
Country/Region: South and East Asia, Bangladesh, Holy Land
In this booklet we have told the story of Christians who suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution because of their faith in Christ. The apostle Paul acknowledges that suffering is an inescapable part of authentic Christian living (Romans 8:17; Philippians 3:10), but in this passage he tells us that this is far outweighed by what we will receive later (cp. 2 Corinthians 4:17).
Lent Prayer 2013 - Martyrs
One Sunday morning in 2012 a car driven by two men drew up at a church compound in the Nigerian city of Jos just as the second service of the morning was beginning.
Lent Prayer 2013 - Uzbekistan
Keeping Christian books and Bibles in one’s home in Uzbekistan can be extremely dangerous. On 6 August 2012 six plain-clothes officers broke into the flat of a disabled Christian...
Lent Prayer 2013 - Turkmenistan
In August 2012 five Christians in the Lebap region of Turkmenistan were taken to court and fined for taking part in unregistered religious activity.
Lent Prayer 2013 - Elderly
When Christians live in contexts of pressure and persecution, the elderly may suffer particularly acutely. Our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ are often very poor...
Lent Prayer 2013 - Tajikistan
Christian worship and witness are tightly controlled by the government of Tajikistan. In effect it requires that any religious activity be officially approved in order to be legal...
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