Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem: 175 nations and more than 200,000 churches participated globally

This past Sunday, an estimated 175 nations and more than 200,000 churches participated globally in the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem! Click here to see video highlights from the Jerusalem observance and reports from around the world! The entire Jerusalem broadcast is also available on the GOD TV website, under "GOD on Demand." As observances were held on Sunday, a 24-hour global prayer conference call united believers from 12 nations. For more details on this groundbreaking day, visit the Day to Pray website.

• Foreign policy team includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, who calls Israel an "apartheid state" and supports unconditional dialog with the terrorist group Hamas. Voted against naming the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
• Stated to AIPAC that Jerusalem is Israel's undivided capital, then backtracked.
• Strong advocate of unconditional talks with all foreign leaders; has pledged to meet without preconditions with Ahmadinejad of Iran and other tyrants.
• Would be willing to consider a military option if Iran attains nuclear weapons.

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in a report last week said the latest U.S. financial meltdown has caused the flood gates of anti-Semitism to swing wide again on Internet discussion boards and blogs. Hundreds of hate messages have been posted to mainstream forums promoting archaic stereotypes and conspiracy theories alleging Jews control the economy, banking, the government and seek to impose a "Jew world order" on the rest of mankind.

Those who again seek to scapegoat the Jewish people ignore the financial crisis has been triggered by a plague of human lust for possessions and wealth, sweeping across the U.S. and further afield. Like all disease it has not been limited to any race, religion, class or creed. (Ynet) "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." 1 Tim 6:10

With security and economic conditions in Afghanistan already in dire straits, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that the situation there would probably only worsen next year.

Admiral Mullen said Afghanistan was likely to continue what a nearly completed intelligence assessment called "a downward spiral" unless there were rapid, major improvements. Those improvements include curbing Afghanistan's booming heroin trade, bolstering district and tribal leaders to offset a weak central government in Kabul, breathing life into a flagging economy and stemming the flow of militants who are carrying out increasingly sophisticated attacks from havens in Pakistan.

Admiral Mullen underscored a point he has made repeatedly in the past: the military can be only one part of the solution in Afghanistan. "We've got to impact pretty significantly, pretty fast on the poppy issue," he said referring to the heroin trade, a scourge that by some estimates accounts for 50 percent of Afghanistan's economy and pours $100 million a year into the Taliban's coffers. (NY Times 10/10/08)

United States may remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism

The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks. The delisting depends on North Korea agreeing to a plan to verify an account of its nuclear activity that it submitted over the summer. U.S. officials said Thursday that no final decision had been made, but diplomats briefed on the matter told the AP that they believe an announcement that North Korea will be tentatively taken off the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism is imminent. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of an expected announcement. North Korea would be put back on the list if it doesn't comply with the plan. (AP, USA Today)

In India, They Hack Christians to Pieces

Before you spend any time fretting about the drop in the stock market, pray for Indian believers who have been attacked in the state of Orissa. J. Lee Grady is editor of Charisma. He has visited India twice and was in the state of Bihar, bordering Orissa, in February. You can also go to a new website on the violence - http://www.genocideofchristians.org

Join together to echo Mr. Grady's call: to pass this message along to your pastor, prayer group leader and praying friends. Please remember the Christians of India. Ask God to protect them with His angels, give them supernatural courage to stand for their faith and keep the doors open so the gospel can be preached in this huge nation Jesus Christ came from heaven to save. To read the full article please go to: http://fireinmybones.com/Columns/100808.html

May God give the authorities the will and the courage to curtail the violence by upholding the law and pursuing truth and justice.

May God protect the monasteries and their inhabitants currently threatened with terrorism; may these threats draw more and more Christians into prayer and dependence on the Lord. 

Most of Egypt's 10 percent Christian minorities are Copts, the indigenous people of Egypt. According to tradition, the Apostle Mark took the gospel to Egypt in the 1st Century and by the 6th Century the nation was largely Christian. The decline of Islam, the end of the Caliphate, Egypt's time as a British protectorate and the rise of secular Arab nationalism all brought some relief to Egypt's Christians. But Islam's oil-sponsored resurgence has brought with it a revival of Islamic intolerance, systematic discrimination, persecution and religious conflict.

On Saturday 4 October a minor incident between a Muslim and Christian in the majority Coptic village of al-Tayeba, near Minya in central Egypt, escalated into a violent communal clash. Property was damaged and a 19-year-old Coptic boy named Yeshua Gamal Nashed was shot dead. Terror threats to monasteries have escalated, forcing the closure of three of the four surviving monasteries.