Sri Lanka Bombing, Sudan Coup: How to Pray

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🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this special episode of VOM Radio we’ll bring listeners an update on Christians in Sri Lanka and how they’re responding to Easter Sunday bombings that killed 250+ people and injured hundreds more. VOM's vice president of international ministry will talk about why the location and the bombers were surprising, and equip listeners with specific prayer requests from Sri Lankan church leaders.

We’ll also discuss the coup in Sudan and possibilities for change there in light of the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir. Sean Paton, VOM’s Africa regional director, will explain the kinds of persecution Sudanese Christians have faced in 30 years under Bashir. What is happening, and how much hope for more religious freedom is there under a new government? Sean will also give specific ways to pray for Sudanese Christians in the days to come, and then Petr Jasek—who spent 14 months in prison in Sudan—will lead us in prayer for the nation and for Christians there during this time of turmoil.

Please share this week's episode with your Christian friends and invite them to join in prayer for Christians in Sudan and Sri Lanka.

You can hear Petr tell the story of his imprisonment here.

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0:00.0	One of my most vivid memories from the Nuba Mountains is actually sitting with a group of pastors and them showing me a funeral that they had had where a bomb had fallen in a marketplace and had killed five children from the same family.
0:12.2	At the funeral the mother and the father are there.
0:15.0	There are five graves.
0:17.0	The first pastor just breaks down.
0:20.0	I mean sobbing, tears splashing off of his Bible, he can't go on and he hands the Bible
0:24.5	to the pastor next to him and he gets about halfway through his delivery and then
0:30.0	he just kind of a
0:33.0	he just breaks down and he hands the Bible to the third pastor who's finally
0:33.8	able to finish the funeral and that's just kind of a vivid reminder to me of
0:38.6	uh... just what a difficult place it is in the kind of persecution the kind of fear that they've been living under.
0:46.4	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact he told his disciples that the world
0:52.0	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:55.0	Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:59.0	and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:03.0	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
1:08.0	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network.
1:11.0	Welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs radio and thank you for taking this time to spend with us this week.
1:16.1	This is going to be a little different half hour here on Vio M radio as we talk about
1:20.9	the attacks last weekend in Sri Lanka and as we talk about the attacks last weekend in Sri Lanka and as we talk about recent
1:25.4	developments in the nation of Sudan. If you're a long time listener to V.
1:29.7	on radio you know that this is not a news show. Every week we talk about the
1:34.8	testimonies of persecuted Christians and those who are doing gospel work in
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