Burden bearing

UNHCR’s REFUGEE BRIEF – Regular updates about the worldwide refugee situation and COVID-19

Subscribe The Refugee Brief – 1 April 2020 By Kristy Siegfried | 1 April, 2020 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Protect rights and health of refugees and migrants in coronavirus response, says UN. Four UN agencies – OHCHR, IOM, WHO and UNHCR – on Tuesday called for national responses to COVID-19 to include migrants, refugees, the forcibly displaced […]

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Some more promises to claim!

As we continue to pray for the latest prayer issue (refugees in and heading for Europe), we all have heard of many of those refugees abandoned in desert areas (the sea of course is another type of “desert area”), often due to people smugglers’ dodgy cars (or boats) braking down, or abandoned in “holding camps”

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Some Principles of Intercession by Pia

This morning, in my study time with the Lord, looking for another scripture, I “accidentally” came across a tremendous scripture to do with our prayer topic (refugees) and the root problem; wars on the earth, whether small or large. The scripture is found in Psalm 46:9 “He makes wars cease to the end of the

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Christian Leaders in Refugee Camps

“Many of the 43 million forcibly displaced people in the world today identify themselves as Christians. In my 30 years of serving refugees, I have found that there are many active pastors, priests and Christian leaders serving among them. I have also discovered that few of us are aware that these brothers and sisters and

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Christian Leaders in Refugee Camps – Prayer Needs

• We lift up all Christian workers, missionaries and church leaders in refugee camps and wherever else they may be ministering worldwide to refugees, whether in detention centres or living on the streets. We thank you for their willingness to make themselves available to God, their fellow refugees and/or refugees worldwide, in order to serve

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Pia’s Reflections: A few thoughts on burden bearing

Looking into the present situation of the most oppressed people group (you guessed it); worldwide refugees (or in your own case any issue(s) that seem overwhelming) those issues can quickly become all-consuming, as I experienced this morning. There are usually two responses to this sense of utter helplessness; we try to self-medicate through the various

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