Praying the News Summary 10

Summary: Country of the Week: Sudan
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Syrian Refugee Crisis

Summary: Greece is suspending its asylum applications for at least a month after Turkey allows refugees to travel through it to reach the EU countries.
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Summary: Violence breaks out between refugees and Greek police.
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Summary: A child drowned when a boat capsized trying to reach Greece. A refugee camp holds 8 times the number of people it was built for.
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Summary: Asylum seekers are being turned away by boats, shot at, and yelled at by angry crowds.
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Summary: Migrant children are sleeping in pens in Greece.
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Summary: Greece has prevent 27,000+ refugees from entering their country. Reports of the border Patrol shooting at migrants.
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Summary: Pray for Christians around the world to get involved in paving the way to peace for refugees even as we work to care for them now.
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US Border Crisis

Summary: Pray for children impacted by our broken immigration system.
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Summary: Immigration fees, particularly for appeals is jumping drastically in the US. One form is going from $100 to $300+ and another form is going from $110 to $975
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Summary: The Supreme Court is deciding whether people seeking asylum can appeal their cases to a court or if the government can deport them despite their appeals.
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Afghan/Taliban/US Tension

Summary: The Afghan President is not agreeing to the prisoner exchange part of the US-Taliban peace treaty.
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Summary: The Afghan President wants a prisoner exchange agreement to be in negotiations, not as a precondition to negotiations.
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Summary: Taliban is continuing to attack Afghan forces.
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Summary: US launched an air strike against the Taliban in response to an attack by the Taliban on the Afghan forces.
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Other Requests

Summary: Tension continues in India's capital
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Summary: Rain (sometimes a month's worth of rain in a few hours) and landslides in Brazil
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Summary: Tornadoes in Nashville.
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Summary: Supreme Court is hearing a case on abortion rights.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Update

Summary: 85,000+ cases of the virus including almost 3,000 deaths worldwide. Now in 57 countries.
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Summary: 3,700+ cases in South Korea.
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Summary: Almost 90,000 cases in 70 countries around the world. 8,000+ cases outside of China. 81% of cases outside of China in South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan.
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Summary: Of 90,000+ cases worldwide, 80,000+ cases are in China. 45,000+ have recovered from the virus.
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Summary: 90+ cases and 6 dead in US due to virus.
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Summary: 2,000+ cases in Iran.
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Summary: 9 dead in the US due to the virus.
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Summary: Live feed with updates on the virus. Italy is closing schools for several weeks.
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Summary: Pray for countries with cases of the virus.
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Summary: 129 virus cases in US. 92,000+ cases worldwide. 80,000+ cases in China. 5,300+ in South Korea.
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Summary: 11 deaths in the US and 3,200 deaths worldwide.
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Summary: Virus in 75 countries. 94,000+ cases and 51,000 already recovered.
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