Today I have two prayer requests for China that I want to share with you. These are in this weeks VOM Prayer alert which you can sign up for at www.persecution.com .

Yesterday the following prayer request was highlighted in the VOM-USA News and Prayer Update. This is just another amazing story of the power of Christ's forgiveness working through the father of the girl who was abducted.Please join us in praying for her safe return and location.

Iranian house-church contacts have asked for prayer for the following:

Every Wednesday the Voice of the Martyrs Canada sends out their weekly prayer newsletter. If you haven't signed up for it yet, please do today. Just go to www.persecution.net .

A few weeks ago I mentioned that Indonesia was one of the countries that I have on my permanent prayer list. This week I want to ask you all to join me in keeping Indonesia in your prayers, especially as attacks on Christians intensify.

The following appeared in this weeks VOM-USA Prayer Alerts. Please join us in praying for this young Christian.

Today I wanted to share with you a very special prayer assignment that I came across this morning as I was going through all of my email. All last week I was on vacation in Washington DC and I have to tell you that it is great to be back...but now we have to catch up.

Has the Lord given you a burden for a nation? He has for me, and one of them is Eritrea, so when I read this prayer request, I just had to share it with you. The statistics are amazing. And when you consider that the majority of Christians in the world are persecuted, it's even more amazing. American Christian - are you taking your freedom seriously? I hope so.

Precious ones, we have a lot to pray about this week. So I would like to encourage you to print these posts up and pray over them. Remember that the Lord does hear our prayers, and even though we may never see the answers ourselves to our cries for mercy, justice and help for the persecuted, we can know that God does not lie, and that He is answering us!