USA: implementing Trump’s executive orders
03 Mar 2017
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued two memos spelling out how they will implement the executive orders on immigration that President Trump signed in his first week in office. The specifics and the scope stunned even seasoned immigrant and refugee advocates. The memos call for hiring fifteen thousand new immigration and border patrol agents, renewing efforts for state and local police to implement immigration enforcement duties, and expanding a procedure known as expedited removal. There could be mass heartless deportations. Another change would end long-standing protections for individuals in or near sensitive locations like hospitals, schools and places of worship. Some churches and even some cities have joined the Sanctuary Movement, and refuse to use their own resources to aid federal authorities in deportation cases.
Sudan: Christian aid workers need freedom
03 Mar 2017
Czechoslovakian aid worker Petr Jašek, who had been sentenced to 24 years in a Sudanese prison, was released when 400,000+ people signed a petition for his release. However, pastor Hassan Abduelraheem Kodi and student Abdulmonem Abdumawla are still serving their twelve years behind bars. Christian Solidarity Worldwide said Jašek's release was good news, but the others are Sudanese nationals and are not represented in the same way.
Pray for justice
28 Feb 2017
In a recent operation in Ghana, 24 young boys were rescued from slavery and finally set free. The boys, the youngest only 7-years-old, had been forced to work on fishing boats on Lake Volta, diving into the deep water to untangle nets for their masters. The dangerous and exhausting work was made worse by violent abuse, starvation and sleep deprivation. IJM and the Ghanaian authorities worked together to free the boys and arrest 16 suspected boat masters. The boys received urgent medical attention, with three needing to go to hospital to be treated for malaria. IJM staff are now working to settle the boys into aftercare homes and start the journey of healing. Find out more here.
- Praise God for the successful rescue of the boys and arrest of the slave owners, and pray that this would be the first of many more, with God’s favour for our investigative team as they seek to find more boys to be rescued.
- Pray for continued healing for the boys - both physically from their injuries and emotionally from the abuse they have suffered. Pray that they would know God’s love and comfort as they move into aftercare homes.
- Pray that IJM’s relationship with the Ghanaian authorities would continue to strengthen and develop, as we work together to stop child slavery in Ghana.
- Pray for our legal teams as they begin legal proceedings against the 16 suspects. Pray that God’s justice would be done and that those who freely abuse and exploit young boys would no longer be able to continue.
Source: International Justice Mission
“Almost nobody knows what’s happening to the Christians of Nigeria—but even fewer care. Here’s why we should. In Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous country, Christians don’t have time to worry about culture wars. They’re too busy facing a real one instigated by their Muslim neighbors and by a government that has studiously decided to look the other way. The scope of the violence is so vast as to be almost beyond belief, so let me first give you a snapshot of what’s happening on the ground.
Deborah, now 31 and living in a camp for the internally displaced, was captured by the Boko Haram terrorist group and held captive for a year and a half. The Islamists came to her village and slaughtered her husband and family before abducting her and “marrying” her off to a 20-year-old Muslim terrorist, who complained of her argumentativeness while raping and impregnating her. After Deborah was recaptured following an escape, she received 80 lashes as punishment. She told journalist Douglas Murray that she no longer fears death.
“What sort of death would I be running from?” Deborah asks. “I have already died once.”
You could repeat Deborah’s basic story countless times in Nigeria. Operation World estimates that Nigeria, which is an officially secular state with a Muslim president, is 51 percent Christian and 45 percent Muslim. Since 1999, the West African nation of about 158 million people has been convulsed by ongoing attempts at imposing Islamic law in eight northern, mostly Muslim states, as well as in four other states where Christians predominate or where the numbers are fairly even.
Things are particularly bad in the north right now. Unarmed Christian villages there are sitting ducks for Muslim Fulani tribesmen, who have been armed with weaponry provided by elements in the national military. According to The Spectator, it’s religiously motivated genocide, although outside agencies dismiss the violence as tit-for-tat.
“The locals daren’t collect the freshest bodies,” the magazine reports. “Some who tried earlier have already been killed, spotted by the waiting militia and hacked down or shot. The Fulani are watching everything closely from the surrounding mountains. Every week, their progress across the northern states of Plateau and Kaduna continues. Every week, more massacres—another village burned, its church razed, its inhabitants slaughtered, raped or chased away.”
Open Doors USA, as part of its annual World Watch List, says the killings have jumped by a whopping 62 percent in a year. And while Nigeria is No. 12 on the World Watch List of Christian persecution globally, it’s in the top 10 in terms of overall violence.
And yet it’s not all gloom and doom in Nigeria. As Tertullian reminded us, the blood of the martyrs is often the seed of the church. Operation World says the country now boasts a strong prayer movement, dynamic church growth, and a growing missionary movement, with more than 5,000 cross-cultural workers—many of them in Nigeria or in other African nations.
So while much of the world has forgotten about Nigeria’s persecuted Christians, surely those of us in the West cannot. They are our brothers and sisters, and they’re doing great things in the midst of severe trials. Let’s hold them up in powerful, prevailing prayer.
Let’s also speak up to the new administration in Washington, which says it will stand up for persecuted Christians around the world. Let’s remind them of their promises and make sure they follow through.
The Christians of Nigeria need us, and since we are members of the same worldwide Body of Christ, we need them.”
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Boko Haram Recruited 2,000 Child Soldiers in 2016
“The Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram recruited 2,000 children to fight in 2016, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.
The data were part of a report indicating that at least 65,000 children worldwide were released from military and armed groups in the past 10 years, UPI reported.
An estimated 17,000 children were recruited in South Sudan since 2013 and child soldiers in the Central African Republic numbered 10,000, the report by UNICEF said.
Of those released from military servitude, more than 20,000 were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nearly 9,000 in the Central African Republic and 1,600 in Chad.
In northeastern Nigeria, more than 100,000 people have been killed in a seven-year conflict with Boko Haram and more than 2 million people have been displaced, Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, said on February 13.
Many of the Boko Haram combatants have been boys and girls under the age of 18, and thousands more are among the displaced.
Boko Haram also uses children as suicide bombers. An explosion at a Maiduguri market in December killed at least one person. A local civilian militia leader, Abdulkarim Jabo, commented that the two bombers were girls who appeared to be about 7 or 8 years old.”
https://financialtribune.com/articles/international/60155/boko-haram-recruited-2000-child-soldiers-in-2016
Let’s pray for the end of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, and the release of the children they have captured and are using for fighting and suicide bombings. This is an outrageously wicked group that needs to go out of existence. Let’s pray with His authority and persistence for their overthrow and dissolution
“Christians in Egypt request prayer after the killing of four Christians in the last three weeks, and after the publication on 19th February of a video calling for further killings.
Wa'el Youssef was shot dead by militants in front of his wife and son in his shop in the North Sinai town of al-Arish on 31st January. Two weeks later militants in the same town shot and killed two more Christians: Bahgat William and Adel Shawqi. A fourth Christian, Gamal Tawfiq, was shot and killed last Thursday, 16th February.
Three days later, on 19th February, a video was published by Daesh (the so-called Islamic State group) which called for Christians in Egypt to be killed. The video featured a recording of the suicide bomber who blew himself up in a church adjacent to the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on 11th December. The bomber killed 29 people.
Five years ago many Christians left the North Sinai region after a priest and a Christian trader were killed and leaflets were distributed which gave Christians 48 hours to leave the region or be killed. Since the overthrow of former President Morsi in 2013, numerous Christians have returned to the region. Now Christians are fearful again. One Christian resident told the Watani newspaper: "We have been leading very hard lives since the last four killings... We can't leave because our livelihoods are here, our homes are here, and we have nowhere else to go. We keep on asking ourselves every day 'Who's next?'"
Islamic militants also regularly attack security personnel in the North Sinai region and abduct or kill civilians suspected of working with the security forces. Last November in al-Arish they killed Suleiman Abu Haraz, a highly respected 100-year-old Sufi Muslim leader. Shortly afterwards they issued a threat against Sufi Muslims in Egypt, saying they must renounce their ways or be killed.
Christians in Egypt request prayer:
a. for the Lord's comfort for all those whose loved ones were killed by Daesh (ISIS) in North Sinai
b. for protection for Christians and others threatened by militants, and for wisdom as to how to respond to these threats
c. that those responsible for the killings will be touched by God's love and will repent”
Middle East Concern
meconcern.org
In the last two weeks different prayer leaders have connected, expressing the need for united, focused, global prayers to target the demise of occultic forces working in harmony with the known demonic efforts of George Soros, and the Elitist Global Leaders he serves.
George Soros: the money and mastermind behind the ‘Progressive Madness’
February 15th, 2017
David Horowitz’s website: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
Please take the time to review this compiled, exhaustive report on George Soros; masterfully researched, written expose, by David Horowitz’s brave website: Discover the Networks.
Below are clips from the link above:
George Soros - To the left, he is a hero; a benevolent open wallet to fund the groups, causes and agenda of the progressive elites. To the right, he is the evil puppet master, funding organizations, causes and events that creep into the fabric of our current culture, destructive and evil…He has an entire life story made up of evil choices, instruction, beliefs and actions. Find out more about this evil man, his cohorts, his agenda and his methods. Knowing these things makes us more apt to pray strategically against the enemy–and for release of our nation from the grip of this man’s grand plan and the spirits behind it all. The battle is spititual–we need to be praying!
Horowitz provides keen insights into the worldview underlying Soro’s commitment to funding and propagating his “Open Society’ views globally:
“The term “open society” was originally coined in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri Louis Bergson (go to link to learn the rest).
To Soros, “Popper’s greatest contribution to philosophy” was his teaching that “the ultimate truth remains permanently beyond our reach.”
… the central contentions of Soros’s Open Society Foundations: the notion that America is institutionally an oppressive nation and a habitual violator of human rights both at home and abroad—indeed, the very antithesis of the type of “open society” Soros reveres.”
SOROS THE PHILANTHROPIST … “My spending rose from $3 million in 1987 to more than $300 million a year by 1992,” Soros said… He happily observed that because of his extraordinary wealth, major political figures “suddenly became very interested in seeing me…. My influence increased.” Today Soros’s Open Society Foundations are active in more than 70 countries around the world.
OSF’s total assets TODAY exceed $1.9 billion. Each year, the Foundations award scores of millions of dollars in grants to organizations that promote worldviews and objectives accordant with those of George Soros. Organizations that:
(listed only 6 of the 22 categories Horowitz highlights-with names and descriptions of activities of each entity Soros funds)
- that depict America as a nation whose enduring racism must be counterbalanced by racial and ethnic preferences in favor of nonwhites,
- that call for massive social change, and for the recruitment and training of activist leaders to help foment that change,
- that disparage capitalism while promoting a dramatic expansion of social-welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes,
- that advance leftist agendas by infiltrating churches and religious congregations,
- that promote open borders, mass immigration, a watering down of current immigration laws, increased rights and benefits for illegal aliens, and ultimately amnesty,
- that favor global government which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies,
Prayer Points:
- Repent for the sins of the church and your people group – this includes our spiritual and natural fathers (2 Chron. 7:14, Neh. 9:2)
- Dedicate all innocent bloodshed to Jesus Christ – this includes abortion, and all wars going back to the civil war (Nullify the demonic ability to use it for occult empowerment of (1) the prayers of witches, wizards, soothsayers and (2) Satan’s human agents, and their movements, organizations or initiatives) (Acts 20:23, 1 Cor.6:20, 7:23, Ezek. 18:14, Ps.24:1, Job 41:11/Heb. 9:22)
- Let us unite and stand against the spirit of witchcraft operating through and over the Luciferian Elites, their New World Order (NWO) and all those here in America who are aligned with their plans, of which, George Soros is a primary puppet to execute their ‘schemes and plans’.
- (Mic. 5:12, Lev. 20:27) “I will cut off witchcrafts andsorceries from your hand,
And you shall have no more fortune-tellers.
- We agree with God and declare any witches, spirits of witchcraft, those who speak or whisper
Incantations, and all other occult practitioners aligned with and protecting the Banking Elites, their financial strength, their NWO; and their primary leadership operating in the United States through George Soros, and his ground troops here in America, have God’s judgment of death upon the spirits they operate under and therefore must flee from their dark places of protection.
Our Father has declared the demise and destruction of your spiritual, physical, and financial strength. Therefore, let it be done on earth just as it has been done in heaven. We declare the enemies of God have been utterly thrust out of their places of safety and have been stripped of their financial strength.
- We declare the public defeat of every principality, power, might, dominion, ruler of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. (Col. 2:15, Eph. 1:19-23, 6:12)
Ps. 17:13 Arise, O Lord, Confront him, cast him down; Deliver my life from the wicked with Your sword,
- We ask You to arise, O Lord, to confront, cast down, and cast out all that have joined together to attempt to bring down our President, destabilize our cities, states, and nation through witchcraft, anarchy, and rebellious rioting. Deliver the life of our nation from wicked intentions of the crafty schemers demonically empowered by the spirit of Anti-Christ. Let Your warring angels be released to defeat them with the edge of the sword – Your word.
Psalm 33:10-11 The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation. (NASB)
- We declare the Lord has revoked, invalidated, and canceled the counsel and all allegiances of
the banking and corporate elites, the United Nations, and all political parties, groups and
movements that dare to stand against His redemptive purpose for the United States and North
America. We declare Almighty God, Jesus Christ, has frustrated the plans for a New World
Order, the Luciferian Elites, and ground forces plotting to overthrow His governing power and
authority.
We declare that the counsel of the Lord stands in power and strength forever and that the plans of His heart will be released through this current administration and will be established for every generation.
In Jesus Name we break the occult shield that surrounds and serves to protect those who hate God and rebel against the rule of His Son, His word, His Spirit, and His will and purpose for His people and America. (Ps. 76:3; Ps 2 )
Finally, let’s ask God to deliver the wealth and riches of wicked into the hands of the righteous.
Prov. 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
We declare that our God is a is a good and great Father, and that part of His
inheritance for His sons and daughters has been stored up for them by the wicked. We declare
that now is the time for wealth of the wicked to be transferred into the hands of God’s faithful stewards and managers. Let the wealth, riches, and resources be used to advance, promote, and establish God’s kingdom purposes in the earth.
Thank you for joining with us and other prayer warriors in standing against the enemy’s efforts to cripple our nation, making it vulnerable to Lucifer’s new world order plans. Let’s ask God to unleash His heavenly hosts of angels to take and implement His word against His enemies, the principalities and powers, bringing them to their knees and utterly defeating them. Let’s make our requests known with continual thanksgivingfor all that He will accomplish for His kingdom purposes.
God bless you all,
Three U.S. prayer leaders
Thanks to the prayers of many within the USA and many of you around the world, we have experienced a divine turnaround and made a U-turn at the cliff in our recent national election. America looked like it was in for even greater decline, but the Lord has had mercy and given us a reprieve. Many in the prayer movement here now feel that though Donald Trump certainly has some rough edges in his personality, he could well be a “Cyrus”, bringing our country back from the brink and opening the way to national restoration and hopefully as we pray the nation may experience a spiritual revival. Amazingly, he has appointed eleven evangelical Christians to serve on his cabinet. That, probably much of it due to Vice President Pence’s wise advice, demonstrates a real seriousness and resolve about restoring America to her original calling to be part of Christ’s light to the nations. Let’s pray that it may be so!
However, in the weeks since the inauguration of President Trump and Vice President Pence, a growing resistance movement is being orchestrated to hinder and if possible overthrow President Trump, Vice President Pence and the new administration. George Soros, the former Nazi collaborator and billionaire activist has set up many extreme liberal organizations that are Leftist-Marxist in ideology and seek to divide and destroy the nation. An allied movement is called Organizing for Action and is led by our former president Barack Obama. It aims to set up 250 offices across the country and utilize an estimated 30,000 agitators to discredit and resist our new leadership.
Now, today word has come that the resist Trump effort has gone supernatural in a global call to invoke the demonic realm against him. Witches worldwide have planned to cast spells on Donald Trump, starting February 24th, at midnight, going around the globe hour by hour and continuing month by month according to the lunar cycle until Trump is taken out. Here's what is being sent out to rally occultists of all kinds:
Would you please join us in prayer and mobilize others to pray with you for the following things:
- That any moles/enemies burrowed in the vast federal bureaucracy in Washington DC will be exposed and punished. Their recent leaks have become a threat to national and international security and are against the law.
- That George Soros, a deeply wicked man who has schemed to destroy other nations and thinks he is a god, will be dealt with by the Lord Himself, hopefully to repent and in any case to be stopped from being able to carry out further harm to the USA or any other country.
- That Organizing for Action and other extreme liberal-Marxist attempts to subvert the current American leadership will be foiled and backfire.
- Let us also agree in prayer and in the authority Jesus has given us that “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven” (Matthew 18:18-19). We now bind in the Name that is above all names every demonic entity and any curses that are or will be invoked against President Trump, his colleagues and administration. In Jesus’ authority and in unity with other intercessors, we render them null and void. By the grace and mercy of God, may many of those who are involved in this witchcraft initiative be set free from spiritual blindness and slavery to the occult realm through coming to faith in Jesus as Savior and Deliverer!
Thanks so much for your strong and persistent prayers as the Spirit prompts you. Our God will use such united prayer to protect the USA and its new administration as well as hasten His good purposes for the rest of our.
“Abortion-industry giant Planned Parenthood “treated women like cattle,” according to a former insider.
The comment came on Tuesday as part of the release of more videos from the pro-life group Live Action, whose president, Lila Rose, is raising various issues about what she calls the “Abortion Corporation” just as Congress is considering transferring some $500 million in taxpayer funds from the abortionists at Planned Parenthood to other community health centers that provide a wide range of health services.
“There is no more room for deception. The record becomes clearer each week that we release a new report: Planned Parenthood’s focus is not women’s health care, but abortion. Planned Parenthood’s business model turns away women seeking options besides abortion and prioritizes the destruction of preborn lives for the sake of profit,” Rose said. “Not only have Live Action’s investigative videos proven it, but Planned Parenthood’s own former employees have said so.
“When lawmakers watch these videos, they should be deeply concerned at the treatment of women at Planned Parenthood. It’s time to redirect Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to more worthy local health clinics that aren’t in the abortion business but that instead provide holistic health care to women,” she said.
There are two new video testimonials from former Planned Parenthood managers Ramona Trevino and Sue Thayer.
They describe how Planned Parenthood pushed “harder and harder” for more clients, cutting doctor-patient visit times – sometimes in half. As the testimonies reveal, women are “treated like cattle” and “herded through” Planned Parenthood.
Trevino, formerly a Planned Parenthood manager in Sherman, Texas, said:
“Planned Parenthood treated women like cattle.”
“There was no prenatal care, there was nothing we could offer women who were pregnant.”
“You go in with the perception that Planned Parenthood is there to help women in any situation, not just when they’re wanting an abortion. … I really went in believing we were just like a gynecologist, then you realize, as time goes by, that you’re not.”
Thayer, formerly of Planned Parenthood’s business in Storm Lake, Iowa, said:
“Over the years I worked there, the mission statement came down. Up went abortion goals and all the other goals we were required to meet. The nurse practitioner that had been there four days a week was now there two hours a week, but we were still seeing the same amount of clients. It felt wrong.”
“Women were just herded through.”
“It is definitely not someplace that I would want to see my daughters go. I wouldn’t want them to have care like that. I don’t think that’s care; that’s not health care.”
“I anticipate Planned Parenthood will respond as it usually does by denying the findings of this investigation,” said Rose. “We know that Planned Parenthood repeatedly misleads the public, as it did during Live Action’s 2011 child sex trafficking exposé.”
She noted that in January, Live Action released public records that show Planned Parenthood failed to report child sex traffickers to local authorities as it had claimed.
“Planned Parenthood also lied to the New York Times, the Associated Press, and other media outlets about retraining thousands of its staff to identify and report sex traffickers,”
she said. “Instead, a former manager says the sessions were used to train staff how to identify undercover journalists.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/planned-parenthood-insider-women-treated-like-cattle/
Several videos with this link: http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/planned-parenthood-insider-women-treated-like-cattle/
Pray for the exposure, cut-off of funds and prosecution where possible for these deceitful and murderous Planned Parenthood staff and facilities. Let’s pray that abortion and especially late-term abortion will be ended.