Migration

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 the No More Deaths volunteers along the U.S./ Mexico Border who have been convicted and are still facing charges because they left water for migrants who crossed through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.  Pray for humanitarians all over the word who are having their kindness criminalized by their governments as they try to help migrants.

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

Please hold in your hearts all who are denied entrance to some of the most beautiful places surrounding Mytilini, because of people who have weaponised and nationalised a symbol of Christian hope. Please also keep in your thoughts all who are celebrating liberation, acceptance and love.

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.