Lift Off! 40 Days of Sacrifice - Day 28
Deuteronomy 24:17-18
You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge. But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
Syria has a young population (median age is 24.1). While about half of the nearly 5 million refugees who have fled Syria are children, Unicef estimates that about eight million children remain in the country. Save the Children also estimates about 40 percent of the besieged population in eastern Aleppo are children. As Save the Children spokeswoman Carol Anning told the BBC, in war you should expect to see a much higher population of adult males being killed in frontline action. “But what we have seen in Aleppo in the last couple of days is totally indiscriminate bombing from the air,” Anning says. “So children are impacted just as much or more than adults in those situations.” (tgc.org)
Given the young age of refugees from Syria, pray for their safety and health. Many of these young ones are seeing the reality of death and violence all around them. Pray for mental stability and physical strength as they travel. Pray also for opportunity--to reach places of safety, to reach places that provide hope and a future, and to reach for salvation in Christ. Pray that their steps would lead them to God's great truth, hope, and security in Him.
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