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Lord, we cry out to you for the safety of the Christians and peace-loving people of Syria. We also pray that You give President Trump wisdom to make the right decisions.
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Turkish forces launched a bombing campaign across northeastern Syria on Wednesday, targeting civilian areas and killing Syriac Christians. 

The bombing campaign, launched less than 48 hours after a phone call between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared to target Christian and Kurdish enclaves in the cities of Qameshli, Kobani, and others. Shelling also hit the border town of Nusaybin, in Turkey, where the oldest church in a region once dominated by the earliest Christians is located.

In the city’s Christian Quarter, known as Bashiria, shelling hit the shop and nearby home of Fadi Sabri Hasbouno. Initial reports had claimed Hasbouno, his wife, and two children were killed. WORLD received photos of the family at approximately 9 p.m. Syria time. One photo showed a woman, believed to be Hasbouno’s wife, strapped to a gurney, her arm outstretched and bloodied, a cross tattoo typical of Eastern Christians visible above an IV running from her arm. Residents later confirmed members of the whole family suffered injuries, and Hasbouno was alert while his wife underwent surgery. His shop burned and half of his house was damaged, he said.

Two children were killed and four injured between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, according to the Rojava Information Center. It said at least one hospital had been bombarded. In Qameshli, a bomb struck Mar Gorgios Assyrian Church.

Turkish airstrikes targeting residential areas violated pledges from both Erdogan and Trump, and defied UN calls to spare civilians. They caused “a huge panic among people of the region,” said Mustafa Bali, chief spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Old people on foot, people in wheelchairs, and shepherds surrounded by their flocks all fled the Kurdish city of Ras al-Ain, reported Joan Garcia, a researcher with the Rojava Information Center. Images of residents fleeing Qameshli in long lines of cars were reminiscent of the 2014 exodus of Christians during the ISIS invasion of Iraq—only this time the invader is a NATO member given a go-ahead to attack by a U.S. president.

For weeks Turkey’s Erdogan threatened an offensive at Syria’s northeastern border, where U.S. Special Forces assisted the Kurdish-led SDF in defeating ISIS. Erdogan has wanted to establish a safe zone for returning Syrian refugees in an area where approximately 100,000 Christians still live. Following a phone call between Trump and the Turkish president on Sunday, a White House press statement announced, “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation in Northern Syria” and U.S. forces “will no longer be in the immediate area.”

Within hours U.S. military personnel stationed in the border towns of Tal Abiad and Ras al-Ain withdrew from their positions. Turkish troops soon moved into those areas. On Monday Turkish media published photos showing members of the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army—a collection of Syrian and other jihadist mercenaries—preparing to fight Kurds and non-Muslims. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu issued a statement saying his country would “clear the region from terrorists.”

(Excerpt from World Magazine. Article by Mindy Belz.)

We need to rally in prayer for the Christians and other peace-loving people of Northeast Syria — including the Kurds, Yezidis, and others. Let us pray for their safety, security, and freedom. Let us also pray they would be guarded from those who would seek to conquer them and take all those things away. As Psalm 33 tells us, let us look to the Lord alone for their protection.

Proverbs 21:1 tells us: “The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord; he guides it wherever he pleases.” Let us also pray that the Lord gives President Trump wisdom to make the right decisions.

(Excerpt from FRC’s Washington Update.)

 

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Betty J Lewis
October 12, 2019

Dear Lord, we know that You are sovereign and nothing is a surprise to you. Lord, You alone are the people of God’s Savior. Not a Nation! Not a President! We all look to you for our Supernatural Protection Plan according to Your Word in Psalm 91. So I am asking that your people all over the world will call out to you for the protection only you can give. Let all of our hearts be toward you. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear what you are saying and doing in this season! You are the only one who can deliver any of us. Let the persecutors become the persecuted. Let revival break out in that region and many be saved. May the Fear of the Lord settle in the camps of the enemy. May the Writing be on the Walls of those who defy the Lord God Almighty! Let a travail and a continuous time of worship to you be lifted. Let the Shofar be blown. Your ways O Lord are not our ways and your thoughts not our thoughts for your thoughts are higher. Open all of our eyes to see who is surrounding the people in that region like you did in 2Kings 6:17. “Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha”. Amen!

Sheila
October 12, 2019

What is wrong with Trump?? The Kruds have been our allies and now he has deserted them.pray that he sees. There much more spiritual pain I hear the Christians, Crying out. Interceed now.

    Barbara
    October 12, 2019

    Praying for the President to receive God’s wisdom in this! Surely we need to defend our allies. Please consider a call to the WH at 202 456 1414 & suggest we protect the Kurds. 🙏❤️

    Lynn
    October 14, 2019

    We are praying and also giving this a bit of time because we do not know all that is going on. News medias including Foxx are not reliable. He is not perfect, but we can not afford to react every time things do not make sense to us on the face of it. He play his cards close to the vest thank goodness, for all of our protection since he is surrounded by enemies himself. Our job is to pray to cover him and ALL of the Christians in this region and in our own Country. See The Gathering Presidential Prayer Watch started when Brother Sadhu came here for a 2017 Conference in Moravian Falls, NC and gave a prophetic word for our Country. http://www.thegatherngchurch.info/presidential-prayer-watch.html%5D

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