Nigeria: displaced Christians refused aid
19 Mar 2020
Among two million people who fled Islamic extremist violence in northern Nigeria are hundreds being denied help because they are Christians. Displaced Muslims receive government-built homes, land, and financial support for resettlement, but 347 Christians are denied help because of their faith. ‘We cannot watch them die because they are unwilling to turn to Islam for support. We want to start something, no matter how small’, said a Christian leader of a small organisation (name withheld for security reasons). He wants to free land on the organisation’s properties to build homes for Christian converts denied entry into camps for the displaced. Many are left to die on their own, as no food or shelter is made available to them. The leader said, ‘We had tried within our little resources to help these ones, but the rejected people without external help to survive are too many.’ The organisation is now seeking support and funding.
India: police implicated in Hindu riots
19 Mar 2020
As the Hindu mob descended, Delhi market stalls were reduced to ashes, just 100 metres away from two police stations. The mobs came three times; desperate stallholders repeatedly ran to the police stations crying out for help, but the gates were locked from the inside. No help came. ‘How could they set fire to our market in such a horrific way, while it is so close to two police stations, and not be stopped?’ said a shopkeeper. ‘If I complain against the police I will face very serious trouble.’ The worst religious conflict to engulf Delhi in decades raises questions about the role that the police played. 75% of the 51 dead were Muslim, and many Muslims are still missing. The catalyst for the riots is widely acknowledged to be a BJP leader declaring that if the police did not clear the streets of objectors to the new citizenship law, his supporters would be ‘forced to hit the streets’.
Pastor Huang Lei leads a church in Wuhan. The coronavirus crisis makes it impossible for his church to have their usual gatherings, so they are meeting online. They are not just doing church, but being church. ‘First, we have more than 50 groups,’ he says. ‘Almost all the groups are meeting via the internet - praying, studying the Bible, sharing, witnessing, praising and worshipping. Of those 50, we have over 30 groups spending two hours every day to pray, worship, share and testify together. That’s far more frequent than our normal meetings. Of course, now we have more free time; everybody is staying at home, so that’s given us the chance to do this. But we usually have the group meeting weekly and now we’re doing this daily. Sometimes even more, so we are very grateful for that.’
USA: send asylum seekers to Mexico or Canada
19 Mar 2020
Officials in Donald Trump‘s administration have been briefed on plans to block all asylum seekers and foreigners from entering the USA as a response to the coronavirus epidemic. All persons on the border with Mexico, apart from American citizens, will be turned back. The same policy is set to apply to the border with Canada. The plan could also see all illegal border crossers returned without due process, and asylum seekers will not be held in American immigration facilities. Anyone caught entering the US illegally will be transported to the nearest point of entry without detention by Border Patrol agents.
3000 children all over the world are coming together to pray for the nations. Orphanages are turning into prayer rooms and churches are organising prayer times for children to come and pray for real issues.
“Go to the streets. Pick up the orphans.
My children will pray, preach, heal, prophecy, bring end time message…”
God spoke these words to Rev. Anton Cruz in 1987.
Royal Kids ministries was started in India in 1991 with one orphanage at Chennai, India. It is being expanded as Children House of Prayer (CHOP) prayer rooms at various orphanages in several countries from the year 2010.
CHOP Vision:
He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. Malachi 4:6
- To raise up children intercessors as worshippers and prayer army to cry out for revival.
- To call forth spiritual parents to support and cover children with prayers.
- We believe and travel to bring “Revival through orphans”.
The vision spread and today there are Children Houses of Prayer in orphanages in Angola, Mozambique, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Burma and Brazil who pray every day and also in churches in Malaysia, India, Taiwan, Singapore, South-Korea, USA, Brazil and Dubai who pray once a week. Their aim is to have every orphanage turned into Children House of Prayer (CHOP) prayer rooms in every nation of the world.
Basically, the children pray for revival in all nations but also for emergency prayer requests. Now when the Coronavirus is spreading, all these CHOP teams are praying in with one voice for the virus to be stopped and for people to be healed. That means 3000 children crying out to the Lord in unison.
Adults are involved as spiritual parents and they, in addition of facilitating and joining in the children’s prayers, have a task as well. They are being asked to pray for their own children, for the fatherless generation, especially for orphans and, they are given names and picture of 7 children in a mission field to pray for every week. And the orphans will in turn pray for the revival of Nations.
If you have praying children or you know praying children
contact us and join our CHOP prayer room network
Email: chopintl@royalkids.org
Whatsapp: +91 7395916903
Register Online: bit.ly/chopprayerrooms
Syrian mother gives birth amid bombs
12 Mar 2020
Haya was nine months pregnant when she fled from IS soldiers with her family and miraculously reached a hospital just as she went into labour. Fighting was fierce and staff were caring for the wounded as she gave birth. Then bombing increased and everyone had to leave the hospital. Haya couldn’t move. Her temperature was dropping fast; she told the nurses she was dying, and asked them to give her baby to her husband and leave her behind. Not long afterwards she felt a very warm hand touching her, moving her down the stairs, and a voice said, ‘Do not be afraid: I am the Lord Jesus Christ, and I am by your side.’ Upon arriving at the exit doors, she felt a surge of energy and was able to flee the bombing. She is now safe with her family and baby, and says on that day there were two new births: her baby and herself, as she became a strong believer in Christ.
A heart-warming story
12 Mar 2020
Spring comes late to Nanai country in the Russian Far East. Ice on the river is three feet thick, after winter temperatures of 40o below zero. Anton, Timur and Misha were sent by Wycliffe Russia to Siberia to learn about the Nanai people and their language. When they arrived at a village, they were welcomed by a leader who was a Christian. His mother, however, was not a Christian and she did not approve. The Bible translators demonstrated a Nanai audio dictionary to a small group, including the disapproving mother. She was not a believer, but she was passionate about her language and was surprised to find that Anton and his friends shared her passion; so she accepted them and became their friend. After hours discussing the language using Bible stories, the conversations turned to God. The leader’s mother listened intently, no longer disapproving. Because these visitors were interested in her language, she was now interested in their God. See also the world article on Tajikistan.
Coronavirus prayer needs
12 Mar 2020
Coronavirus is now a pandemic. Our government is taking various measures to reduce social contact and contain those infected. Newspaper editors are urged to avoid spreading panic. Jesus told his disciples, ‘I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes’. Jesus told his disciples to focus their lives upon the Kingdom of God and Kingdom values. Pray for Christians to set an example of putting fear in its rightful place. Continue to pray for the protection of the elderly and those with existing health conditions, asking God to provide solutions amid the challenges they may have with hospital appointments and prompting wise choices as they assess their involvement in community activities. The government's Cobra committee is co-ordinating the nation’s response to coronavirus. May God be with each minister, civil servant and official in this committee; may they neither over-react nor make erroneous choices.