Moriel & Jacob Prasch request prayer for Paul Smith, brother of Chuck Smith, Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. . He was admitted to the hospital this evening due to a head injury and blood on the brain.

Pastor Paul is now home in Lucerne Valley as of 9pm last night and doing very well.  His mind is clear and he doesn’t have pain.  The doctors are amazed.  We are not amazed at what our awesome Lord did for him.  Thank you so much for your faithful prayers for him and Ruth and their family.  Now we’re asking the Lord to help him rest and go slowly for a full recovery.  He’ll return to the doctor in a week for the eight staples to be removed from his scalp. 

Moriel & Jacob Prasch request prayer for Gabriella Sond, the premature infant daughter of pastor Teerth Sond who leads a Moriel Asian Fellowship in Great Britain. The baby is fighting infection and other complications of premature birth and her condition is serious. Please also pray for Teerth and his wife & family and wisdom for the physicians.

Moriel & Jacob Prasch request prayer for Teerth Sond and his family . Teerth leads a Moriel Asian fellowship in England and has lost his two week old prematurely born baby daughter Aniya Gabriella. Jacob has been requested by the family to officiate at the funeral and bring the eulogy. This is no easy task and prayer is indeed appreciate.

Charlie Butts
OneNewsNow
2/22/2012 11:30:00 AM

While the world’s attention is on Israel and Iran in terms of possible military action, an attorney says an Iranian pastor is still in serious trouble and needs the world to petition the government on his behalf.

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has received the death penalty because of his alleged conversion from Islam to Christianity, although he insists he was never a Muslim. Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) tells OneNewsNow that during his 863 days of imprisonment, Nadarkhani has been pressured to recant his faith or admit that Mohammed is a prophet. But he has refused to do so (see earlier story). Continue reading →

Seven churches in Algeria have been ordered to close, following the passage of a law requiring registration.

One report is saying that a notice, dated 22 May, was sent from a High Police Commissioner informing the President of the Protestant Church of Algeria (EPA) that a decision had been made to close down all Christian places of worship throughout the country that are not designated for religious purposes, and threatened “severe consequences and punishments” for violation of the order.

Other reports say the Governor of Bejaia has informed the President of EPA that the seven churches in that particular province of Algeria must close down.

Whichever story is the more accurate, and it is often difficult to get precise information in these situations, this is a calculated assault on the church of Jesus Christ and stems from a 2006 law which regulates the exercise of religions other than Islam.  Like Pakistan’s blasphemy law, this is a measure specifically designed to cause difficulty to the practice of the Christian Faith.

Naturally, the EPA churches cannot comply with the regulations because the Ministries of Interior and Religious Affairs have delayed responding to the EPA’s application for registration. Without legal registration, the EPA cannot apply to register their churches as places of worship.

Algeria is overwhelmingly Muslim with around 60,000 Christians, the majority being what Muslims will regard as ‘apostates’, in other words, converts from Islam.

Algerian Christians have appealed for urgent prayer for the order to close down the churches to be withdrawn and that the idea will not spread to other parts of the country. They also ask us to pray for 2006 law to be repealed or the necessary procedures implemented to allow the EPA to register.

WRITE (or email): to your MP at: House of Commons, London,SW1A 0AA. Ask your MP to ask the Foreign Secretary what representations the Government have made to the Algerian authorities to demand that they rescind the order, repeal the 2006 law and allow Algeria’s Christians freedom of worship.

Update: Have just spoken to the hospital and at present they are concentrating on getting rid of all the excess fluid which has gone from the feet to the legs and into the stomach. They are doing a barrage of further tests.

David Wilkerson has passed away in a head-on collision in East Texas and his wife Gwen is in critical condition. Please pray for her and the family.

As a serious matter of some urgency Moriel, Jacob Prasch & Pastor Marco Quintana who leads a Moriel affiliated congregation in California request prayer for the following situation involving a baby in the fellowship.

Pastor Quintana reports that one of the little ones in our children ministry, Jude Reyes, has come down with bacterial meningitis. He is 16 months old and his mom and dad have been an incredible support and encouragement in the ministry. Jude is currently at the hospital being treated with antibiotics.I visited him last night, he is not in isolation but the doctor is very concerned because of the possibility of brain damage or other complication. They doctor has done a spinal tap which is how they found he had meningitis. Please pray for Jude and for his parents, Alex and Jeff, that the Lord will grant them wisdom and comfort. Shalom May the Lord bless you (Titus 2:13).

Update: Jude now has a fever and has been very difficult to keep it down. The fever is not good news.

Christian couple Eunice and Owen Johns, who are opposed to homosexuality, have lost the first round of a battle to continue fostering children. Moriel & Jacob Prasch urge our readers globally to pray against this outrageous injustice perpetrated against Christians and against children by the wicked judges and politicians in The UK and to sign the petition.