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Prayer List: Flooding and Landslides Damage 115,000 Homes in Peru


Lima, Peru

According to The Guardian, “Sixty-seven people have been killed and thousands more forced to evacuate by intense rains which damaged 115,000 homes and destroyed more than 100 bridges in Peru’s worst floods in recent memory.” Deutsche Welle reports that “a state of emergency declared in more than 800 cities” and  “99,475 Peruvians had lost everything since the beginning of the year.”

Prayer List

* Pray for the Holy Spirit to comfort the families and friends of the people killed in the Peruvian landslides and flooding.
* Pray for healing for the injured.
* Pray for housing and shelter for the homeless.
* Pray for Christians to meet the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of people affected by this disaster.
* Pray for job opportunities for people living in slums.

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Prayer List: Lethal Landslide Strikes Ethiopian Garbage Dump


50 people died when a landslide in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, struck a garbage dump. Reuters reports,”The landslide late on Saturday also destroyed 49 dwellings and left 28 people injured …”

The garbage dump was home for the victims who earned a living by scavenging through trash for items to recycle or resale.

Prayer List

* Pray for the Holy Spirit to comfort the families and friends of the people killed in the Ethiopian landslide.
* Pray for healing for the injured.
* Pray for Christians to meet the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of people affected by this disaster.
* Pray for job opportunities for people living in garbage dumps so they may escape extreme poverty.

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Prayer List: Sex Abuse Rampant in Nursing Homes


CNN reports, “The unthinkable is happening at facilities throughout the country: Vulnerable seniors are being raped and sexually abused by the very people paid to care for them.”

CNN investigated this tragedy and discovered that from 2013 through 2016 “the federal government has cited more than 1,000 nursing homes for mishandling or failing to prevent alleged cases of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse at their facilities during this period.”

Prayer List

* Pray for emotional healing for victims of sexual assault in nursing homes and assisted living centers.
* Pray for justice for the victims.
* Pray for the sex offenders to repent of sin.