For those of you who have chosen to pray for Egypt this month, this story may help you in directing your petitions to the Lord. This is a blurb from the Catholic News Agency...

We told you about the Christmas massacre that took place at Christmas time in Egypt a few days ago. Here is an updated story, including news on attacks in Malaysia.

This morning I had a friend on Facebook share a song with me that was in another language, so I could understand it when I listened to it, he copied some of the lyrics and I wanted to share them with you.

Here we go again folks. The Gideons International, whose main purpose is to win men and women, boys and girls to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, by passing out the Word of God, for free, in various venues, has been successfully bullied into having distributions stopped at a school because of one complaint.

I have to tell you all that my heart leapt for joy when I read the responses to my post on picking a restricted nation to pray for this year. As you know, I'm starting the year praying for Libya. But what is even more cool is the countries you all said you were going to pray for. And don't worry, if you haven't yet picked a nation, you can do that today.

Many religious communities in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan have not yet re-registered with government authorities as required by laws passed in both countries in 2009, according to Forum 18 News.