Create a room with prayer stations. Participants will move at their own speed through the room, reading the prayer points and praying on their own.
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As we go forward, may the peace of God be with you; and may we pray for that peace to be found throughout the great nation of Zimbabwe.
Prayer Room
SWRadio: 7 March, 2007
Last week, Kiki joined Duane on SWRadio’s broadcast discussing the International Day of Prayer. Listen in HERE
AP: Tutt decries silence on Zimbabwe’s attacks on opposition
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday lambasted African silence about the brutal treatment of democracy activists in Zimbabwe.
“We Africans should hang our heads in shame,” said Tutu, who is widely regarded as South Africa’s moral conscience. “How can what is happening in Zimbabwe elicit hardly a word of concern let alone condemnation from us leaders of Africa?”
There has been increasing criticism of South Africa’s refusal to condemn the arrest and beatings of scores of opposition demonstrators, including the main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Lawyers: Zimbabwean opposition tortured by police
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Top opposition leaders were assaulted and tortured by police who broke up a prayer meeting planned to protest government policies, colleagues of the activists said Monday.
One protester was shot dead by police in Sunday’s unrest in the outskirts of the capital and scores of others were arrested. Journalists trying to cover the events also were arrested.
In a statement, organizers of the prayer meeting, an alliance of opposition, civic, church leaders and student and anti-government groups, said lawyers who visited the detainees Monday reported the main opposition party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, fainted three times after being beaten by police.
The alliance, called the Save Zimbabwe Campaign, said another opposition leader, Lovemore Madhuku, was taken to the main Harare hospital early Monday after collapsing from police assaults.
CNN: Texting news to beat the censors
SWRadio has been a great partner in the International Day of Prayer, and now their work is gaining international attention through CNN. Continue to pray for their work as they seek to broadcast true journalism around the world.
(CNN) — Radio journalists broadcasting news about Zimbabwe have turned to texting their bulletins via mobile phones.
In order to beat the censors, journalists from SW Radio Africa have decided to text headlines to listeners after radio signals were jammed.
“It’s really only with full access to information that you can promote democratic principles,” says Gerry Jackson, the founder of London based SW Radio Africa.
Following the 2000 shut down of her Capital Radio station, Gerry Jackson left the country for London. Using short wave transmission and the Internet, she began broadcasting SW Radio Africa.
Her attempt was successful until 2005, when the government of Zimbabwe began using Chinese technologies to jam the broadcasts.
Anti-Government Protests over the weekend
Proverbs 29 v 2 “ When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked are in power, the people mourn.’’
Gift Tandare was shot and killed today in a high density suburb of Harare. Morgan Tsvangirai Lovemore Madhuku, Nelson Chamisa, Mike Davis, Elton Mangoma were tortured in custody.
Arthur Mutambara and Tendai Biti are missing.
In Highfields, the police last night were assaulting ordinary citizens in the suburb for allegedly supporting opposition politicians and the organizers of the rally. It is reported that several people were injured during the melee instigated by the State.
As the nation mourns another lost life, the people of Zimbabwe and the international community are urged to continue rallying behind the cause for a democratic and prosperous Zimbabwe.
Please be praying for all those unjustly arrested, that they will be released and be out of harms way. Pray for the family of Gift Tandare in their mourning. Pray for the police- that they will open their eyes to the wrong that they are committing and that they will cease from their actions of harm against innocent citizens. Pray for Mugabe as he plans on staying in power until 2014. Pray for Zimbabwe…
God Bless, Peter
UNICEF Partners with Enemies of Human Rights
Note: this is an opposing view to the UNICEF Report found HERE.
UNITED NATIONS, February 26 — When does foreign aid serve to prop up a dictatorship? This question was raised earlier this year at the Executive Board meetings of the UN Development Program, concerning UN aid in North Korea. But the question appears to similarly arise in the wake of an announcements Friday and earlier this month concerning expanded programs in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe by the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF.
Mugabe’s long descent from participant in the Zimbabwean independence struggle to dictator is widely known, certainly to the senior leadership of UNICEF. The UN commissioned a report by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, head of the UN’s Nairobi hub, on Mugabe’s mass eviction in 2005 of 700,000 perceived political opponents, called Operation Muarambatsvina / Take Out the Trash (or, “Drive Out the Filth”). Virtually none of the families evicted were re-housed, according to follow-up reports.