Praying the News Summary 39

Summary: Country of the Week: Turkmenistan
Source: Link

US Racial Injustice

Summary: Pray for wisdom for lawmakers determining what policies to add, remove, or change.
Source: Link and Link
Summary: Pray for the schoolchildren impacted by racial inequality
Source: Link

Summary: PRAISE: LA reassigned 7 officers to non-field duties while investigating claims of excessive force
Source: Link
Summary: Join Nazarene Compassionate Ministries in praying for racial unrest and virus victims
Source: Link
Summary: The Customs and Border Patrol took some of its emergency funds allocated for food & medicine for migrants and instead spent it on vehicles
Source: Link
Summary: PRAISE: Louisville bans no-knock warrents and requires body cams to be on while they are being served in the wake of Breonna Taylor's death
Source: Link

Other Requests

Summary: Pray for countries to seriously investigate allegations of war crimes and hold those responsible accountable for their actions
Source: Link
Summary: Pray for healing in Norway as it continues to heal from an attack on a mosque last year
Source: Link
Summary: Pray for Lebanon as there have been protests over the country's collapsing currency
Source: Link
Summary: 8 homeless people were tricked into eating food laced with a substance twice as strong as pepper spray. Their attacker filmed their responses. His trial is coming up
Source: Link

Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Update

The latest global numbers from John Hopkins: Link
The latest US numbers from the CDC: Link
Summary: Live Updates: 500,000+ cases in Russia (3rd highest in world). 7.3 million cases worldwide including 416,000+ deaths
Source: Link
Summary: Live Updates: Over 1.5 million cases including 70,000+ deaths in Latin America. Over 7.5 million cases including 420,000+ deaths globally
Source: Link
Summary: Live Updates: Brazil has second highest death rate from virus with 41,000+ deaths
Source: Link

Summary: Pray for ICE detainees without proper protective equipment
Source: Link
Summary: Africa has 200,000+ cases including 5,000+ deaths
Source: Link
Summary: The US has over 2 million cases including 112,000+ deaths
Source: Link
Summary: Pray for workers who don't feel safe returning to work
Source: Link
Summary: The number of cases are increasing as states open up
Source: Link
Summary: Pray for nursing home staff facing shortages of PPE
Source: Link
Summary: Join Nazarene Compassionate Ministries in praying for racial unrest and virus victims
Source: Link
Summary: 114,600+ deaths in the US
Source: Link
Summary: Pray for farm workers exposed to the virus
Source: Link
Summary: PRAISE: there was a successful double lung transplant of a virus survivor
Source: Link