Europe

Pray for those migrants in Lesvos whom European authorities have arrested, detained and accused of "human smuggling".

Please hold in the light those migrants trapped on Lesvos who face increasing police harassment and detention, as well as those in the solidarity movement who increasingly are vulnerable to criminalization by state authorities.

Please keep in your hearts survivors of two boats that capsized this month in the Aegean sea a week apart from each other.

Pray for an end to the use of the legal system to prosecute migrants when they resist the injustices they face.

As the third anniversary of the EU-Turkey Deal approaches, we pray for all who lost loved ones, those trapped in concentration camps, and those sent back to countries where they had to face war, hunger and human rights abuses because of the Deal’s implementation.  We pray for all migrants everywhere, because intolerance knows no borders.

Pray for the people confined to the Aegean islands during the winter months. Showers are falling on migrants who live in tents and containers on Lesvos. Rapidly flowing streams are coursing down between their small tents in the olive grove. Migrants are left to fend for themselves. They have to be creative and use the garbage that they find in the surrounding area to winterise their shelters and protect themselves from the cold, the damp, and the rain.