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8.
Patriarch Bartholomew has spoken in particular of the need for each of
us to repent of the ways we have harmed the planet, for “inasmuch as
we all generate small ecological damage”, we are called to acknowledge
“our contribution, smaller or greater, to the disfigurement and
destruction of creation”.[14]
He
has repeatedly stated this firmly and persuasively, challenging us to
acknowledge our sins against creation: “For human beings… to destroy
the biological diversity of God’s creation; for human beings to
degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate, by
stripping the earth of its natural forests or destroying its wetlands;
for human beings to contaminate the earth’s waters, its land, its air,
and its life – these are sins”.[15]
For
“to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against
ourselves and a sin against God”.[16]
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South
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Ex Drug Mule:
Prison in UK Set Me Free
Former
drug smuggler Moses Letsoalo now devotes his life to teaching children
about the dangers of drugs |
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Exodus
1
After about 300 years, when the Israelites had grown to a huge number,
the Egyptians began to see the Israelites as a danger to
Egypt.
So they forced the Israelites into slavery,
and made their life miserable.
The Egyptians forced the Israelites to make bricks
and build cities.
But the more the Israelites were oppressed,
the more they increased in number.
So the Egyptian king told the Israelite midwives
to kill all new-born boys.
But the midwives let the baby boys live,
and God was pleased with the midwives and blessed them.
Pharaoh then ordered all Israelite baby boys
to be drowned in the river.
Dear
God, please stop people, especially children, from being used as slaves
My recording of this reading
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Psalm
22
(Many
things in this psalm happened to Jesus when he was put to death.
This psalm prophesizes Jesus' death)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I call to you for help, but day and night you give no reply.
I am a worm and not a man.
Everyone who sees me makes fun of me. They taunt me: "He trusted in the
Lord, why doesn't the Lord help him?"
Like water I am poured out, my bones no longer
connected.
My throat is parched, my tongue sticks to my jaws.
Many evil people attack me.
They make holes in my hands and my feet.
They await my death. They divide my clothing among them,
they throw a dice for my robe.
Yet I know Lord, that you are good and
holy.
I know how you heard the cries of our ancestors and you helped them.
It was you who took me from the womb,
and entrusted me to my mother's breast.
To you I was committed from my birth, from my mother's womb you have been my God.
Lord, I trust in you even now.
I trust you will not scorn my prayer. Even now I praise you as my Creator.
May all the nations know and worship you.
Lord, please help people who
are in big trouble right now,
especially people whose lives are in danger
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1
Peter 1.3-9
Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
In his great mercy, he has made us his children.
He has prepared a place in heaven for us, to live with him forever
This is a cause of great joy for you,
even though life in this world has many trials
You did not see Jesus, yet you love him, and
you believe in him.
Faith gives you confidence to look forward to the salvation of your souls
Jesus, I have never seen you with my physical
eyes,
but I love you and believe in you
Recording
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Matthew
10.1-16
Many men followed Jesus as "fishers of
men", as "disciples". Jesus chose 12 of them and called them "apostles":
Peter and his
brother Andrew;
Zebedees' sons James
and John;
Philip and Bartholomew;
Thomas and Matthew;
James son of
Alphaeus; Thaddaeus,
Simon and Judas.
Jesus sent them to prepare his way by visiting
the places he would go.
He gave them power to cast out evil spirits and to heal all kinds of
sicknesses.
He said to them:
Proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is near.
Cure the sick.
Raise the dead. Cleanse lepers. Cast out devils.
Jesus, please help all
Christians to be apostles and fishers of people
Recording
Famous
rock formation in Australia: The
12 Apostles 
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Please
join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific
Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Jesus,
today, Saturday,
please bless the people of Central
& North America
And praying for prisoners in one
part of China each day of the month:
On this 27th of
the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Tibet
And
praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 27th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Uganda
And
praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the week:
Jesus,
please pacify the Taliban
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This
website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs
to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's HK
Asylum Seekers' File
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South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK) |
