Dateline: Pakistan – Last year, extreme floods struck Pakistan beyond the normal yearly flooding. The August 15, 2010, issue of Frontline Dispatch requested prayer for the Christians who were ignored by their government in the distribution of critical supplies and food. The July issue of Open Doors Frontline Faith newsletter gave an update on the [...]
Dateline: Pakistan – As Christians, we know we are to tell the world the wonderful gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christian parents, our greatest desire is for our children to receive the love of God in Christ personally. What if you lived in a place where your children’s lives could be in danger at school, [...]
Dateline: Pakistan – Even before I sat down to write about Asia Bibi in Pakistan needing our prayers of intercession to avoid certain execution, a more current article indicated that prayer is already working on her behalf. Though there was no mention of prayer in articles I read, posts on Twitter and elsewhere have widely [...]
Dateline: Pakistan – Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the massiveness of the need in prayer. It’s just too big for me to comprehend, and I lose sight of the individual human beings, especially when reported numbers of killed, sick, displaced, or just people living in abject poverty range in the tens of thousands to hundreds [...]
Dateline: Loose Ends – Since most of the prayer requests from previous Frontline Dispatch posts are ongoing, it’s not possible to bring you the final word about them. This post will, however, bring you current with three of them. Pakistan and the floods. . . Have you begun to wonder whatever happened with the flooding [...]
Dateline: Pakistan – We’ve all seen the pictures of the flooding in Pakistan, but have we really grasped the enormity of the situation? The initial flooding is not what we see in news reports now, though it may look the same, but the continued rains from the monsoons and the additional flooding they bring. The [...]
Dateline: Pakistan – Sometimes, even praying Christians can get anesthetized to some of the needs around the world. Take Pakistan, for instance. How often is Pakistan in the news, either for being the site of a bombing or other attack, or for being connected to it in some way? After so many of these stories, [...]
Dateline: Pakistan – From the highs of last week’s post, we return to the ugly side of life in the story of an innocent 14-year-old girl from a Christian family in Pakistan who was kidnapped, drugged, and raped by a group of 5 Muslim men who demanded she be given to one of them in [...]
