"Same-sex marriage" file

Islam File    The New Translation

111. Ecological culture cannot be reduced to a series of urgent and partial responses to the immediate problems of pollution, environmental decay and the depletion of natural resources. 

There needs to be a distinctive way of looking at things, a way of thinking, policies, an educational program, a lifestyle and a spirituality which together generate resistance to the assault of the technocratic paradigm. 

Otherwise, even the best ecological initiatives can find themselves caught up in the same globalized logic.

To seek only a technical remedy to each environmental problem which comes up is to separate what is in reality interconnected and to mask the true and deepest problems of the global system.  

I spent yesterday at a women's prison, much of the time praying with women suffering from serious illnesses. 

In the presence of one woman I felt I was the novice and she was the master as regards spirituality - such was her love for God, her love for the Bible, her concern for others.

It's not all that difficult to be concerned about others "less fortunate than ourselves" when our life is going smoothly.

But to show concern at a time when we ourselves are carrying a heavy cross - this is a special grace

Deuteronomy 29-30 (a)

Moses called the whole of Israel together and said to them:

"Keep the words of this covenant and observe them, and you will thrive in all you do.

Let there be no man or woman among you, no clan or tribe, whose heart turns away from the Lord your God to go and serve the gods of the nations.

If ever you are scattered from the land God is giving you, God will bring you back when your hearts turn back to him.

The Lord will circumcise your hearts until you love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

Deuteronomy 29-30 (b)

This law I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach.

It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder 'who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us so that we may hear it and keep it?'

Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder 'who will cross the sea for us and bring it back to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?'

No, the Word is very near to you.
It is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance.

Recording

Deuteronomy 29-30 (c)

See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster.

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to make your own.

But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

Recording

 Deuteronomy 29-30 (d)

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, blessing or curse.

Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live in the love of the Lord your God,
obeying his voice, clinging to him.

For in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them."

Dear Lord, please help more and more people to choose life and blessings...and not to turn their backs on you

Recording

 149 (b): Nor should we forget that “the greater or lesser degree of the holiness of the minister has a real effect on the proclamation of the word”. As Saint Paul says, “we speak, not to please people, but to please God who tests our hearts”.

 If we have a lively desire to be the first to hear the word which we must preach, this will surely be communicated to God’s faithful people, for “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”. The Sunday readings will resonate in all their brilliance in the hearts of the faithful if they have first done so in the heart of their pastor.

10 years ago today

2005-10-27 Evening English classes at Ricci Centre - thank you Greg, Lucy, Sabrina, Damyn  & Zoe

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, Tuesday, please bless the people of South Asia

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 Boko Haram 

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
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

"Same-sex marriage" file

Islam File    The New Translation

110 (b): A science which would offer solutions to the great issues would necessarily have to take into account the data generated by other fields of knowledge, including philosophy and social ethics; but this is a difficult habit to acquire today. 

Nor are there genuine ethical horizons to which one can appeal. Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology, itself viewed as the principal key to the meaning of existence. 

In the concrete situation confronting us, there are a number of symptoms which point to what is wrong, such as environmental degradation, anxiety, a loss of the purpose of life and of community living. Once more we see that “realities are more important than ideas”.[91]

Pope lashes out at bishops at end of synod

Synod offers striking softening to remarried, proposing individual discernment - “ the true defenders of doctrine are not those who uphold its letter, but its spirit; not ideas but people; not formulae but the gratuitousness of God’s love and forgiveness,” 

“This is in no way to detract from the importance of formulae, laws and divine commandments, but rather to exalt the greatness of the true God, who does not treat us according to our merits or even according to our works but solely according to the boundless generosity of his Mercy” - Pope

Deuteronomy 27-28 (a)

Moses' teaching:

"Be silent, Israel, and listen. Today you have become a people for the Lord your God.

A curse on anyone who breaks the commandments of the Lord.

Blessings on everyone who keeps the commandments of the Lord.

If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, you will be blessed in the town and blessed in the country.

Blessed will be the fruit of your body, the fruit of your soil, the issue of your livestock.

Blessed will you be coming in, and blessed going out.

My recording of this reading

Deuteronomy 27-28 (b)

But if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you will be accursed in the town and accursed in the country.

Accursed will be the fruit of your body, the fruit of your soil and the issue of your livestock."

Dear God, please help us to obey your words ... and be blessed

Recording

Acts 12.20-23

Wearing his robes of state and sitting on a throne, King Herod made a speech to the leaders of Tyre and Sidon. People acclaimed him saying "It is a god speaking, not a man!"

At that moment, the angel of the Lord struck him down, because he had not given the glory to God. He was eaten away with worms and died

Jesus, please help us remember that all our talents are a gift from you. "Not to us, Lord, but to your name be the glory"

Recording

Mark 10.35-45

The brothers James and John were two of Jesus' disciples. One day their mother said to Jesus
"When you become king, allow my sons to sit at your right and left".

Jesus said to his cousins James and John "Only my Father in heaven can allocate seats on my right and left". 

The 10 other disciples were angry at James and John for seeking honor.  So Jesus said to them all  "In most places, people in power like to dominate and control others. But this is not to be your way of exercising authority.

You must exercise authority by serving others, not dominating them, just as I came not to be served, but to serve, and to give my life as a ransom for the world"

Jesus, please help me want to help and serve other people,
not dominate and control them

Recording

The impression I am left with about this Synod meeting, is that the Institutional Church has put off talking about current ecclesiastical and pastoral issues far, far, too long

Central African Republic faith leaders hope pope helps with peace

Visit of Pope to Africa is vital for Muslim relations

Dongfang the large Chinese citrus company commits to help Australian farmers reach a big market

149 (a): The preacher “ought first of all to develop a great personal familiarity with the word of God. Knowledge of its linguistic or exegetical aspects, though certainly necessary, is not enough. He needs to approach the word with a docile and prayerful heart so that it may deeply penetrate his thoughts and feelings and bring about a new outlook in him”.

 It is good for us to renew our fervour each day and every Sunday as we prepare the homily, examining ourselves to see if we have grown in love for the word which we preach.

To go with stories at top about Tanzania General Election:
On  September 19, Magufuli promised that if he were president there would be no more night-time (near bottom of this report)

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, Monday,  please bless the people of Europe & Russia

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 26th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Xinjian

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 26th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Togo

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, please pacify ISIS 

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
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

"Same-sex marriage" file

Islam File    The New Translation

108. The idea of promoting a different cultural paradigm and employing technology as a mere instrument is nowadays inconceivable. The technological paradigm has become so dominant that it would be difficult to do without its resources and even more difficult to utilize them without being dominated by their internal logic. 

It has become countercultural to choose a lifestyle whose goals are even partly independent of technology, of its costs and its power to globalize and make us all the same. Technology tends to absorb everything into its ironclad logic, and those who are surrounded with technology “know full well that it moves forward in the final analysis neither for profit nor for the well-being of the human race”, that “in the most radical sense of the term power is its motive – a lordship over all”.[87] 

As a result, “man seizes hold of the naked elements of both nature and human nature”.[88] Our capacity to make decisions, a more genuine freedom and the space for each one’s alternative creativity are diminished.

Yesterday I attended yet another meeting to do with the increasing involvement of HK's asylum seekers in the world of crime. Big problem is that government is not taking any action ... just letting the problem get worse like a festering sore ...which is bad news for both asylum seekers and HK society. My solution:

     

Deuteronomy 19-21

Moses' teaching:

"A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.

When you go to war, the following men are excused from fighting:

a man who has not yet dedicated his newly-built house; a man who has planted a vineyard and not yet enjoyed its fruit; a man who is engaged to be married; a man who is fearful and faint of heart."

Jesus, please help me understand your words about loving our enemies and not taking revenge

My recording of this reading

Psalm 146 (a)

My soul, give praise to the Lord.
I will praise the Lord all my days.

Put no trust in princes, in mortal men in whom there is no help.

Take their breath, they return to clay, and their plans that day come to nothing.

They are happy who are helped by Jacob's God, whose hope is in the Lord our God, who alone made heaven and earth, the seas and all they contain.

It is he who gives bread to the hungry, the Lord, who sets prisoners free.

Recording

Psalm 146 (b)

It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind, who raises up those who are bowed down.

It is the Lord who protects the stranger, and upholds the widow and orphan.

It is the Lord who loves the just
but thwarts the path of the wicked.

The Lord will reign for ever,
Zion's God, from age to age.

Lord, please increase my trust and faith in you

Recording

Mark 10.1-12

One day some religious leaders put Jesus to the test by asking him
"Is it against the Law of Moses for a man to divorce his wife?"

Jesus replied "God created male and female, for the two to become united as one body.  What God has united, no one should separate."

The religious leaders then asked
"But why did Moses allow divorce?"

Jesus replied "Moses allowed divorce because people were so hard of heart.  But divorce was not God's plan.

So I say to you, anyone who walks out on their partner and marries someone else, is guilty of adultery."

Jesus, please help married people stay together

Recording

“Immediately release the children and their families from detention. They are innocent children who are incarcerated. That’s what we’re asking for”

Good Samaritan Sister Clare Condon was one of 50-plus leaders representing diverse faith groups who met with Federal parliamentarians last week, calling on them to restore Australia’s standing as a compassionate nation by winding back policies negatively impacting on people escaping violence, persecution and death.

Britain 'sucking up' to China is a national humiliation, says PM's former adviser

Steve Hilton denounces lavish treatment of President Xi Jinping, saying UK should consider sanctions on China ‘not rolling out red carpet’

UK nuclear power deal with China is one of the maddest ever struck

Xi goes through motions as England expects … several large cheques

Famous Chinese Christians

146. The first step, after calling upon the Holy Spirit in prayer, is to give our entire attention to the biblical text, which needs to be the basis of our preaching. Whenever we stop and attempt to understand the message of a particular text, we are practising “reverence for the truth”. This is the humility of heart which recognizes that the word is always beyond us, that “we are neither its masters or owners, but its guardians, heralds and servants”.

 This attitude of humble and awe-filled veneration of the word is expressed by taking the time to study it with the greatest care and a holy fear lest we distort it. To interpret a biblical text, we need to be patient, to put aside all other concerns, and to give it our time, interest and undivided attention.

 We must leave aside any other pressing concerns and create an environment of serene concentration. It is useless to attempt to read a biblical text if all we are looking for are quick, easy and immediate results.

 Preparation for preaching requires love. We only devote periods of quiet time to the things or the people whom we love; and here we are speaking of the God whom we love, a God who wishes to speak to us. Because of this love, we can take as much time as we need, like every true disciple: “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening”.

10 years ago today

2005-10-22 Regular Saturday night meal with the poor at Marco Polo + budding entertainers

2005-10-22 Toys R Us No. 3  - at Xinqiao Primary School

George W Bush goes to a primary school to talk about the war. After
his talk he offers question time. One little boy puts up his hand, and the  President asks him his name. 
"Billy!" "And what is your question, Billy?" 
 "I have three questions:

First - why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Second - why are you President when Al Gore got more votes?; and  Third - whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?"

 Just then the bell rings for recess. George W. Bush informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

 When they resume, the President says, "Okay where were we? Oh that's  right - question time. Who has a question?"
 A different little boy puts up his hand, George points him out and ask his  name. "Steve!"  "And what is your question, Steve?"   "I have five questions:

 First - why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN?;
 Second - why are you President when Al Gore got more votes?;
 Third - whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?;
 Fourth - why did the recess bell go 20 minutes early?; 
and  Fifth - what happened to Billy?"

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, Thursday,  please bless the people of S.E. Asia & Pacific

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 22nd of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Zhejiang

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 22nd of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Rwanda

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, please pacify Al-Qaeda

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
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

"Same-sex marriage" file

Islam File    The New Translation

107. It can be said that many problems of today’s world stem from the tendency, at times unconscious, to make the method and aims of science and technology an epistemological paradigm which shapes the lives of individuals and the workings of society. 

The effects of imposing this model on reality as a whole, human and social, are seen in the deterioration of the environment, but this is just one sign of a reductionism which affects every aspect of human and social life. 

We have to accept that technological products are not neutral, for they create a framework which ends up conditioning lifestyles and shaping social possibilities along the lines dictated by the interests of certain powerful groups. 

Decisions which may seem purely instrumental are in reality decisions about the kind of society we want to build.

Yesterday I made the long trip to Shek Pik Prison on Lantau Island to visit Tanzanian inmates ...about a dozen of them .... all keenly following events leading up Tanzania's general election on October 25.....some events more worrying than others ... like this one:
Frustration grows over missing names on voters’ list  (one of many tactics used by govt party to keep power)

Deuteronomy 16-18

Moses' teaching:

"Remember the special feasts and days that you must observe.

Appoint judges for the people. Do not pervert the law. 

You must be fair, you must not take bribes. No bribes, no corruption.

Do not practise divination, soothsaying. No one may be an augur or sorcerer.

Do not use charms, do not consult ghosts or spirits.

Instead, be entirely faithful to the Lord your God."

Dear Lord, please help people avoid astrology and fortune tellers

Psalm 145

I will give you glory, O God my king. I will bless your name day after day.

The Lord is great, worthy of all praise. His greatness cannot be measured.

Age to age shall proclaim your works, shall speak of your splendor and glory.

The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love.

How good is the Lord to all,
compassionate to all his creatures.

All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and tell all the world of your love.

The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds.

The Lord supports all who fall
and raises all who are bowed down.

The eyes of all creatures look to you and you give them their food each day.

The Lord is close to all who call him, who call on him from their hearts.

Let the whole world bless the Lord's holy name, for ever, for ages unending.

Recording

Acts 10.1-48

Cornelius was a Roman centurion stationed in the town of Caesarea.
He and his household prayed, loved God, and helped the local people

One morning Cornelius had a vision that Peter would visit him.
In another town, Peter was instructed by the Lord to visit Cornelius

Peter preached God's message to Cornelius and his household.
While Peter was speaking, the Holy Spirit came down on all the listeners

Jewish believers  who had accompanied Peter were astonished that the Holy Spirit would come down on non-Jewish people

Holy Spirit, please come down on all peoples everywhere!

Recording

Mark 9.38-41 

Jesus' apostle John, said "Master, we saw a man who is not one of our group casting out devils in your name. Because he was not one of us, we tried to stop him"

Jesus said "You must not stop him. No one who works a miracle in my name is going to speak evil of me. Anyone who is not against us is for us

In fact, even someone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to me,  will be rewarded"

Jesus, please help me stop dividing people into "us and them"

Recording

Chris McDonnell (Wed UK blogger) 

Set in stone
Our appreciation of the gift of Francis must be shown by our patience with his struggle. The Bishop of Rome requires our help, loyalty and prayer. 

Facebook will beam the web to Africa – a vital first step in helping people connect

African bishops assert themselves at summit

145. Preparation for preaching is so important a task that a prolonged time of study, prayer, reflection and pastoral creativity should be devoted to it. 

With great affection I wish to stop for a moment and offer a method of preparing homilies. Some may find these suggestions self-evident, but I consider it helpful to offer them as a way of emphasizing the need to devote quality time to this precious ministry.

 Some pastors argue that such preparation is not possible given the vast number of tasks which they must perform; nonetheless, I presume to ask that each week a sufficient portion of personal and community time be dedicated to this task, even if less time has to be given to other important activities.

 Trust in the Holy Spirit who is at work during the homily is not merely passive but active and creative. It demands that we offer ourselves and all our abilities as instruments which God can use. A preacher who does not prepare is not “spiritual”; he is dishonest and irresponsible with the gifts he has received.

True story:
Pope of a long time ago, admiring splendour of St Peter's Cathedral (before present basillica) to St Dominic: The Church can no longer say with Peter and John "Silver and gold have I none".
To which Dominic replied: Which is why it also can't say "In the name of Jesus, get up and walk"

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, Wednesday,  please bless the people of East Asia

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 21st of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Yunnan

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 21st of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Benin

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, please pacify Al-Shabaab 

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
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

   "Same-sex marriage" file

Islam File    The New Translation

106 (c): Human beings and material objects no longer extend a friendly hand to one another; the relationship has become confrontational. 

This has made it easy to accept the idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology.

It is based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth’s goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry beyond every limit.

It is the false notion that “an infinite quantity of energy and resources are available, that it is possible to renew them quickly, and that the negative effects of the exploitation of the natural order can be easily absorbed”.[86]

Gerry Lee, director of the Mary-knoll Office for Global Concerns, said that the negotiations "have been so carefully kept from public view and only shown to the corporations who are heavily involved in the treaty process that it's certainly logical to assume that the ultimate version of the treaty will heavily favor big pharma and transnational corporations over low-income and middle-class communities in the Americas and Asia."   Full story

Deuteronomy 14-15

Moses' teaching:

"There are certain animals you must not eat, including pigs.

At the end of every 7 years, you must cancel all debts.

If there is a poor person among you, do not harden your heart or close your hand against that person.

Always be generous to anyone in need."

Dear Lord, make me more generous towards poor people

Psalm 144

Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
who gives me strength for every situation.

He is my love, my fortress. He is my stronghold, my savior.

To you, O God, will I sing a new song, you who so often rescued David your servant.

Happy the people whose God is the Lord. Please continue to bless your people, Lord.

Let our sons flourish like saplings
grown tall and strong from their youth; our daughters graceful as columns, adorned as though for a palace.

Let our crops and stock be blessed. May there be no sound of weeping on our streets.

Lord, please help us love and honor you every day. Don't let us ever forget your love

Recording

Acts 9.32-35

Peter visited churches in many areas. When he went to Lydda,
he saw a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bed-ridden for 8 years

Peter said to him "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you. Get up and fold up your sleeping mat"

Aeneas got up immediately. The people of that area who saw him, were converted to the Lord

Jesus, let there be more miracles of healing, so that more people will believe in you

Recording

Recommended: check these readings early morning, think about them during the day, check them again at night. This habit gives us extra energy, courage, motivation, peace and compassion for each day

Mark 9.33-35

One day Jesus heard his disciples arguing about which one of them was the most important

So he said to them "If you want to be No. 1, you must become No. 1,000 and a servant of everyone else"

Jesus,  give the world:  leaders who care more about their people
 than about themselves

Recording

Nigeria set to finally get government ministers
Nigerian inmates in HK prisons are happy at this news .....HK has signed a PTA (prisoner transfer agreement with Nigeria), and PTA has been approved by Beijing, but it's waiting for signing by Lagos ....which job can only be done by the new justice minister ...when he eventually takes office!

Brendan Hoban

144. To speak from the heart means that our hearts must not just be on fire, but also enlightened by the fullness of revelation and by the path travelled by God’s word in the heart of the Church and our faithful people throughout history. 

This Christian identity, as the baptismal embrace which the Father gave us when we were little ones, makes us desire, as prodigal children – and favourite children in Mary – yet another embrace, that of the merciful Father who awaits us in glory.

 Helping our people to feel that they live in the midst of these two embraces is the difficult but beautiful task of one who preaches the Gospel.

My regular article in today's Ming Pao newspaper
with the topic: Many HK workers are slaves!
is on Ming Pao website - click "Australian in HK".
Free access to article with recording today from about noon to 8pm HK time. Text without recording

10 years ago today

2005-10-19,20,21 Visit to Zhaoqing by AITECE Hong Kong Assistant Manager, William

Yesterday after I spent some time in the visitors section of Lai Chi Kok (men's) Reception Centre, I went to Sham Shui Po computer centre. The difference between the two centres?  Most visitors at LCK visitors section were women, visiting their husbands, sons, boyfriends, brothers, fathers. Most patrons at the computer centre were men, visiting their computers!

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, Tuesday, please bless the people of South Asia

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 20th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Sichuan

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 20th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Gambia

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, please pacify Boko Haram 

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
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)