To Pray for the Christians in the Middle East-UPDATED

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 6:23 pm by Frank Weathers

To Pray for the Christians in the Middle East-UPDATED 2017-01-24T18:23:14-05:00 Frank Weathers

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Thanks to having low friends in high places, I can share this with you. You used to have to be an operative of the CIA, or MI-5, to be able to pull up stuff like this on your computer screen. Nowadays, you can do so from your investment house’s Bloomberg machines. By doing so, you can even pretend that having this kind of knowledge at your finger tips will give you an investing edge. It won’t, but that is another story.

In my case, since I was recently thinking about our Christian brothers and sisters in Egypt, it just gives me more reasons to pray for their safety. My oh my, look at all those pipelines and such! Burning refineries, etc. And you’re wondering why gasoline prices are high? Wonder no more.

Meanwhile, Christians are still being martyred. Have a look at this video and,

Hear the voice of a Christian Martyr singing a hymn in Arabic to the Blessed Mother, while watching a slideshow of his funeral mass. Hear the angelic voice of Father Ragheed Ganni, a 35 year old Chaldean Catholic Priest killed on Sunday June 3rd, 2007 with three of his deacons right after celebrating mass at Holy Spirit Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq. The car of Father Ragheed and the three deacons was stopped by terrorists shortly after leaving the church. They were forced to get down from the car and asked to declare their conversion to Islam. When the four martyrs refused they were brutally gunned down with machine guns.

A translation of the hymn in English is,

We honor you with hymns O Mother of God, you are the pride of the whole earth, because the Word of God whom the Father sent, chose to take His human body from you. The generations call you blessed, all nations and people’s honor you and ask for mercy by your prayers. You are a generous earth in which plants of joy always grow.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.

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