“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)

1. that depict America as a nation whose enduring racism must be counterbalanced by racial and ethnic preferences in favor of nonwhites,
2. that call for massive social change, and for the recruitment and training of activist leaders to help foment that change,
3. that disparage capitalism while promoting a dramatic expansion of social-welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes,
4. that advance leftist agendas by infiltrating churches and religious congregations,
5.  that promote open borders, mass immigration, a watering down of current immigration laws, increased rights and benefits for illegal aliens, and ultimately amnesty,
6.  that favor global government which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies,

 Prayer Points:

1. 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)
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)
3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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, 

6. 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)

7. 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