IPC: Connections
During our last Connections prayer alert, we featured the Mexican drug war and asked you to pray for the apprehension of the remaining seventeen “most wanted” drug cartel leaders, people who are utterly ruthless criminals, responsible not only for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Mexico but…
Nathan Hughes, writing for the STRATFOR online journal, described the huge logistical challenges for the U.S. and other coalition partners in the landlocked nation of Afghanistan where “hundreds of shipping containers and fuel trucks must enter the country every day from Pakistan and from the north to sustain the nearly…
Your prayer support will be all-important to the planning of this event which is intended to be a “new paradigm” for an international congress—carried out Acts 13-style—incorporating listening to God, united prayer, and strategic implementation of world-impacting action that proceeds out of that encounter with the Lord and one another.…
300 local church leaders and 50 internationals in prayer ministry will gather at the Hallelujah Church in Seoul to pray for breakthrough in the deliverance of North Korea from its decades-long oppression and suffering at the hands of the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il regime. The current situation…
“Only four months after the people of south Sudan overwhelmingly voted to secede from Khartoum's Islamic Republic of Sudan - and six weeks before the independence day of July 9 - a resumption of Sudan's civil war is threatened by north Sudan's military occupation of the disputed territory of Abyei…
DALAI LAMA steps down from his political roleLegal expert Lobsang Sangay has won an election to become head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, taking over the Dalai Lama’s political role. The change, yet to be written into the exile constitution, reverses 300 years of tradition in which the top monk also…
For five years now, the North American Prayer Summit has united Canadian, Mexican and American prayer leaders in wonderful, powerful times of prayer for the issues of our continent. We have seen much answered prayer and heartening unity build among the three nations. A solid foundation has been laid from…
Over 2 billion people live in a Commonwealth nation. The Commonwealth Prayer Initiative strengthens and connects their 54 nations in a yearlong prayer thrust for the Commonwealth, and its people and leaders. 20-22 October, Commonwealth Christian Assembly (SHINE) is celebrating the 54 nations of the Commonwealth plus its friends. It…
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) News has produced a video about the situation in the war zones of Burma. We invite you to view it on the CBN site here: http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/vod/GLA153v3_WS This video provides a good, concise overview of the situation in Burma, especially the situation inside Karen state, and includes…
It was a privilege to participate in the special prayer initiative that happened last week in Mexico City along with thirty representatives from the USA. It is called “Dos Naciones, Un Proyecto” or “Two Nations, One Project” and will be an ongoing effort combining prayer and action to bring deliverance…
The pictures of the original 37 “most wanted” criminal leaders are attached below. Praise God that 20 have been removed. The second slide shows the faces of the 17 that now need to be brought to justice. Pray for the remaining 17 drug criminals whose faces appear in the next…
The Global Day of Prayer and the IPC have a rich and enduring relationship going back to September 2004 when Graham Power, GDOP chairman, and his associates approached the IPC with their vision to hold an international day of repentance and prayer for the world on Pentecost Sunday each year.…