Prayers for Peacemakers, August 20, 2014

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Prayers for Peacemakers, August 20, 2014

Pray for migrant and refugee children who come to Greece without their parents.  Even if they have a family member with them, the authorities separate them if that family member is not a parent.  Last week, volunteers working on the Mediterranean Project that CPT Europe supports spoke with a twelve to thirteen year old Afghan boy who was crying because the authorities were going to hold him for a longer period by himself in the Moria Detention Center, even though he had been traveling with an aunt. 

Epixel* for Sunday, August 24, 2014
Moria Detention Centre on Island of Lesvos, Greece

When she opened it, she saw the child.  He was crying, and she took pity on him, “This must be
 one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said. 
Exodus 2:6

*epixel: a snapshot-epistle to the churches related to and appearing with a text from the upcoming Sunday’s Revised Common Lectionary readings.

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