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August '09 Edition: 'The Christian Messenger' Newspaper
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August 1: Pray for Vani and drinking water or purifying agents,
Veena, conjoined twins aged five animal fodder, tarpaulins, safe water
years. They are joined at the head. storage vessels, hygiene kits,
They have separate brains but have temporary toilets and mosquito nets
one common blood vessel. are met.
Neurosurgeon Dr Keith Yu-Ching
Goh from Singapore, who will
operate on them this month, has
Swine flu: Pray for God’s August 29: Technology has
invaded the pulpit. Webcasting of
given them only a 60% chance of
survival. There’s a 30% chance of
protection over our families Sunday services, blogs by pastors
and tweets to the congregation are
death or disability post-surgery, he Swine flu is the new pandemic that’s sweeping across the increasingly becoming popular with
has warned. Pray for the successful world. As of July 27, as many as 475 people in India were the Net-savvy in the church. Pray
conduct of the operation. tested positive to the influenza A (H1N1). WHO said 816 that these innovations do not mar the
swine flu deaths world over had been reported till July 2009. sanctity of worship and preaching.
August 2: Fakes are taking over As many as 160 countries had been hit by the new virus.
the originals. Fake spare parts Pray for the Lord’s protection over your family. Pray that no August 30: Pray for Nigeria. In a
including automobile as well as for ‘terror, wasting disease and fever shall consume us and cause recent spate of violence, churches
electrical and electronics goods and government buildings have been
sorrow of heart’ (Leviticus 26:16).
spares are available at cheap prices torched by groups of militants
in Chennai. According to police, dubbed as Nigeria’s Taliban. The
fake spares worth at least Rs 60 lakh bouts of vomiting and stomach pain. August 17: Pray for your church. of land. He has been claiming a current death toll, according to
were seized in Tamil Nadu in the last Doctors have stated there’s no Pray for the pastor, the worship promise given to him by God that reports, has exceeded 150 as of July
six months. Pray that the menace of medical remedy. Claim Isaiah 53:5 leaders or the choir, the Sunday he will indeed build his own 29. Pray peace prevails in that
the counterfeit ends soon. for the young man. school teachers and the ushers. Pray house.Pray that God opens doors for country.
that the Lord will add new believers him this year.
August 3: Pray for Chad today. August 10: Even as Pakistan to the church as it happened in Acts August 31: An exhibition in
The landlocked country in central government continues to dither over 2:47. August 25: Pray for BI and her Glasgow, UK, where an open Bible
Africa is referred to as the ‘Dead the arrest and release of terrorist and family. She has a 23-year-old son was kept witnessed intolerance of
Heart of Africa’ due to its desert leader of Laskar-e-Toiba Hafiz August 18: Pray for your pastor. who has discontinued studies and the LGBT community. Several
climate. The 1993 census found that Mohammed Sayeed, who That God will give him more grace sits idle at home. BI and her husband derogatory and obscene remarks
54% of Chadians were Muslim, 20% masterminded the Mumbai terror (James 4:6), spiritual revelation struggle hard to make both ends were found scribbled on the Bible
Roman Catholic, 14% Protestant, attacks, pray that the perpetrators of through the Holy Spirit (John meet and give their children (a son kept for display at the gallery of
10% animist, and 3% atheist. Pray the attacks are brought to justice. 14:26), anointing (Isaiah 10:27) and and daughter) a bright future. Pray modern art. Pray that the Word of
the Word of God is preached to holiness (1 Peter 1:15,16). that the family members accept the God speaks to those behind the
Chadians and there’s a great revival August 11: Pray for the Indian Lord as their savior this year and defiling of the Bible.
in the country. student community in Australia. August 19: Pray for KB. This experience peace and prosperity.
Several Indian students were widow is fighting a court case over
August 4: China is planning to attacked in racial attacks that have her land in Kerala. An envious August 26: Pray for the xd;Wk; ,uz;Lk;
establish the country’s first sex left the world shocked. Pray that the neighbor is intent on creating a institution of marriage between man
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themed park. The park with naked Australian government gets its act pathway through her land even and woman. It was instituted by God
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human sculptures and giant replica together in tackling the perpetrators though he has an approach road to Himself. Pray for live-in couples,
of violence. his field. Pray to the One who sits homosexuals and lesbians who try
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October, 2009 in Chongqing, the on the throne judging in to distort the holiness associated
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city on the Yangtze River. Pray that
been on the rise in India since 1995, fpwp];J ,NaRTf;Fs; Njtd;
wisdom prevails on the authorities
to prevent such a thing from according to the Indian August 20: According to a Child August 27: A recent Maoist attack mioj; j guk miog; g pd;
happening. Meteorological Department. An Rights and You (CRY) study, India on a police outpost in Kandhamal ge;jag;nghUSf;fhf ,yf;if
effect of global warming, this has is home to the largest number of has triggered tension. Orissa Chief Nehf;fpj; njhlUfpNwd;. (gpyp.
August 5: Researchers from been cited as the reason for child laborers in the world. An Minister Naveen Patnaik has already 3:13-14).
Rajasthan university recently found increasing flood and drought estimated 17 million children are demanded that central forces be
conditions in India. Our God is still employed in some form of work or deployed in the state till September
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pesticides in lactating women in in command. He controls the wind the other. Eighty-five percent of 30. Pray that violence does not rock
and the oceans (Mark 4:39) these children work in unorganized the state again. fpUigAk; rj;jpaKk;
Anupgarh town of that state. Experts
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attribute extensive tinkering with
nature to produce more food grains August 13: Pray for young boys help. Pray for their deliverance. August 28: Pray for the half jhf@ eP mitfis cd;
and cereals as the reason for this. indoctrinated by the Taliban in million people displaced from their fOj;jpNy G+z;L> mitfis
Pakistan. In July ’09, as many as 200 August 21: Pray for Kannada homes in the recent monsoon rains cd; ,Ujakhfpa gyifapy;
August 6: Pray for Sailee (11) boys, some as young as six years, actress Maria Susairaj accused in the in Assam. Pray their needs for food, vOjpf;nfhs;. (ePjp 3:3)
and Gaurav (6), children of 38-year- were rescued by Pakistani security Neeraj Grover murder case. She is
old Rachana Ghag, a terminally ill
cancer patient on her death bed in
forces from Taliban camps in the
lawless Swat valley. Reports said
now lodged in a Mumbai jail. At the
jail, she is said to have turned a new
New Arrivals
Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mumbai. they were trained to become suicide leaf. A Catholic earlier, she now is
Her husband died a few years ago. bombers. said to have had a salvific
She’s worried about her children’s experience. Pray that she remains
future after her. Pray that God will August 14: According to an and grows in the Lord.
raise support for the children’s estimate, one woman is raped in
education and support. India every 30 minutes. Commit August 22: Pray for India’s peace
those women you know into the with her neighbors especially China,
August 7: With the new Lord’s hands. Ask Lord Jesus to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
government resolving to provide 25 cover them with His blood. Pakistan has started blaming India
kg of rice or wheat at Rs.3 every for unrest in Balochistan and wants
month to those below poverty line, August 15: Pray for India. As the the international community to act
pray that poverty becomes a thing nation celebrates Independence day against the country. Pray that their Leading with nothing to lose Bakht Singh of India
of the past in our country. Pray that today, pray that the country evil designs do not bear fruit. Simon P Walker T E Koshy
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According to 2001 census, Archbishop of Orissa, Raphael
August 8: Pray for The Christian Christians constitute only 2.3% of Cheenath has made a call to observe
Messenger media ministry. We bring the population. Pray ‘the Lord of this day as ‘Peace Day’. This day
out faith-building Christian harvest to send out laborers into His marks the murder of Swami
literature in English, Hindi and harvest.’ (Matthew 9:38). Laxmananda Saraswati and the
Tamil among other languages. Pray ensuing violence that targeted the
for more volunteers who can help us August 16: Pray for SJ. The 47- Christian community in Orissa. Pray
in news gathering, translation work, year-old man working abroad is that fundamentalist forces put the
distribution of literature. addicted liquor. past behind and work to build a
Pray that our Lord who makes all harmonious society.
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