Armenian Prayer Initiative

You will rejoice to read this report of the recent prayer initiative for the land of Armenia carried out in partnership with the Australian Prayer Network!

http://prayarmenia.net

4 page link is attached.

Prayer for Bangladesh

Right now our country situation is not good. A Muslim terrorist group always told most of the Christian leaders to stop Christianity so now the Bangladeshi Christian Community is very afraid. Last month, one group sent me a SMS saying, “Stop your prayer activities with Christian Nurses. (This is a program for Christian Nurses in which we worship and pray together.) But some Muslim people don't like this. That's why they send to me SMS and threatened that if you again start this program, we will kill you. So please pray for Bangladesh. We are only half a million Christians here and need safety. I believe God will protect us.

God bless you.

Pastor Michael Ripon Biswas

Dakka, Bangladesh

Afghanistan and Pakistan

Pray for continued dissension among the Taliban and that they will give up their destructive struggle against the government. That they will become disillusioned with all the fighting and killing among themselves and of their own people.

(CNN)The Taliban don't only attack other people; factions of the Taliban sometimes battle each other.

For the last four days, two Taliban groups have waged gun battles in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan, Ata Mohammad Haqbayan, the head of the Provincial Council in Zabul, said Tuesday. On one side are fighters loyal to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and on the other are fighters loyal to Mullah Mohammad Rasool, the leader of a Taliban splinter group.

A deadly suicide attack

So far, about 100 Taliban fighters from both sides have been killed, including some Uzbek fighters who are siding with Rasool's splinter group, Haqbayan said. On Tuesday morning, an Uzbek fighter carried out a suicide attack on Mansour's senior members in the province, killing some of them, according to Haqbayan.

The division in the Taliban came after the group acknowledged in late July the death of its leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and his replacement with Mansour.