Circuit Prayer Diary 2022/23 – Day Twenty-Three
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Praying with: World Methodism
The Uniting Church in Australia
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Praying with: Our Districts
Northampton District
Prayer for the Homeless, Migrants, Refugees and the vulnerable
The total number of refugees in the world at the end of 2015 reached 65.3 million -- or one out of every 113 people on Earth, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The number represents a 5.8 million increase on the year before.
"Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." (Psalm 82:3,4)
Bless all those who are, through no fault of their own, forced to flee their homes and take, along with family, only that which they can carry and seek a safer place to live. Remind us of our Saviour who, as a child, was also a refugee, finding shelter in a foreign land, and give us hearts and hands willing to reach out and help these, our distant relatives within your worldwide family. Amen