Praying the News Summary 54

Summary: Country of the Week: Sri Lanka

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Racial Injustice

Summary: Pray for justice in the investigations of the death of Elijah McClain after an encounter with police

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Summary: Pray for justice in the investigation of the death of Breonna Taylor back in March at the hands of police officers. 
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Summary: Pray for justice in the investigation of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers
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Other Requests

Summary: 44 prisoners in Chad died from being crowded in one cell in extreme heat (over 110 degrees Fahrenheit)
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Summary: 3.7 million Chinese are displaced due to record flooding levels in 2020

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Summary: Pray for peace in Belarus and a just election
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Summary: The death toll in Beirut, Lebanon has risen to 200
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Summary: Gunmen in Niger kill 8 aid workers
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Summary: Pray for peace in Chicago
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Summary: A volcano in Indonesia has erupted
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Summary: Pray that the Navajo request to change a death penalty to life imprisonment for a crime committed by a Navajo man on Navajo land is respected by the US federal government
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Summary: Pray for students who saw a woman get shot & killed during a class-at-home videochat lesson
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Summary: Join in praying for programs & current events with the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Update

The latest global numbers from John Hopkins: Link
The latest US numbers from the CDC: Link
Summary: Live Updates: PRAISE: New Zealand has had 100 days without a local infection!
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Summary: Live Updates: Over 20 million cases including 736,000+ deaths globally
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Summary: Live Updates: 20.3 cases globally, with 5.1 million in the US, 3.1 million in Brazil, & 2.3 million in India. 743,000+ deaths globally.
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Summary: Live Updates: 749,000+ deaths globally, 47,000+ of which are in India
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Summary: Live Updates:
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Summary: Live Updates: 21 million cases globally with 5.3 million in the US, 3.2 million in Brazil, & 2.5 million in India. There have been 764,000+ deaths globally

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Summary: Over 3 million cases including 100,400+ deaths in Brazil.
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Summary: The US passes 160,000 deaths
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Summary: Pray for black & Hispanic children who are more at risk of the virus & more likely to have a more severe case
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Summary: The US passes 5 million virus cases 17 days after it passed 4 million
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Summary: The US has 163,400 deaths
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Summary: At least 97,000 kids tested positive for the virus in the last 2 weeks of July. 340,000 kids have tested positive since the pandemic began
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Summary: New Zealand gets 4 positive cases after over 3 months of no local cases. They moved the area with the cases from Level 1 to Level 3 alert & the rest of the country to Level 2
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Summary: New Zealand has 14 new cases after 100+ days without a local infection
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Summary: New Zealand extends their lockdown after their new cases rise to 28
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Summary: Pray for black and Hispanic Americans more likely to catch the virus & die from it
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