Editorial staff •
Once again. Once again innocent victims who lost their lives or were seriously injured. Once again families and friends in pain. Once again doctors, policemen, priests, journalists working beyond exhaustion to save lives, to comfort, to provide security, to spread less panic and more clarity …
Let us all be Brussels. We are all Brussels. United in prayer, in solidarity, in capital of grace, in pain.
We are in the Holy Week. The Way of the Cross of Jesus is not a tale from past times. Is today. In Brussels and in many places where hatred and fanaticism are destroying the lives, health and dreams of people.
In every age and on many different paths
you stagger, scorned and laden with the cross:
The persecution
and the terror and hate attacks
which your Church
and all your people, all humankind
endures
is the cross placed on your shoulders.
God, have mercy on your people.
Pope Francis has a sent telegramme to Jozef De Kesel, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels following the attacks on Tuesday morning in the Belgian capital Brussels.
In the telegramme signed by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis prays for the victims, the injured and their families and again condemns “blind violence which causes so much suffering.”
Please find below a Vatican Radio translation of the Pope’s telegramme.
Learning of the attacks in Brussels, which have affected many people, His Holiness Pope Francis entrusts to God’s mercy those who died and he prays for those who have lost relatives. He expresses his deepest sympathy to the injured and their families, and all those who contribute to relief efforts, asking the Lord to bring them comfort and consolation in this ordeal. The Holy Father again condemns the blind violence which causes so much suffering and imploring from God the gift of peace, he entrusts on the bereaved families and the Belgians the benefit of divine blessings.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Secretary of State of His Holiness
PLANTING CHURCHES INSIDE MUSLIMS COMMUNITY
Email: plantingchurchesinsidemuslims@gmail.com / muslimsfoundjesus@gmail.com
Dear Director / Pastor / Brother / Sister in Christ,
Greetings to you in the most precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
We are in great need of your kind prayers for our own lives and ministry specifically among the Muslims. We are very glad to share with you that our Living God has filled our hearts with His burden & vision in our lives to reach specifically to The MUSLIMS by The Gospel of Jesus Christ & plant House Churches inside Muslim community. While Muslim terrorist groups such as Islamic state , Taliban, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram are killing Christians in different countries, He is leading us to reach out to the Muslims for His own glory and help them to know that Jesus Christ is The Only Living God and Saviour.
Our Lord Jesus is using us to fulfill His plan & will in and through our lives. By the grace of God, already Several Muslim men & women accepted Jesus in their hearts as their Lord & Saviour. They are following His teachings in the midst of different types of physical tortures by the militant Muslims. They are witnessing about Jesus and they are sharing their testimonies to their relatives & neighbors. God is adding more men & women to our worship services almost every week for His own glory.
Militant Muslims are often torture and try to harm physically to the believers from Muslim background for their new faith in Jesus. Even though we are facing heavy persecutions & threats by the Militant Muslims, but our Lord Jesus is using our lives for the extension of His Kingdom and He has protected us for His own glory. Militant Muslims are constantly trying to murder us. Our lives are in danger at this moment.
We are in great need of your kind prayers in our own lives and for the persecuted believers. Humbly, we request you kindly pray for God’s protection from the hands of Militant Muslims. Please also pray that we might be always faithful to His call in our lives and grow in Him.We are prayerfully expecting to have at least 500 believers from Muslim background at our fellowship.
Please write few words for us.
With regards,
Bashir & team
KINDLY PRAY FOR: House Church Fellowship, Discipleship Ministry, Women Ministry, Children Ministry, Health Care Ministries for the women & Children and Compassion Ministry (such as Distributing Clothes & blankets to the poor children & Sarees to poor woman, Free tuition to the needy students, Feeding to the poor children , helping to the persecuted believers those who lost their sources of income & houses for their faith in Jesus, Educational help to the poor & needy students, Providing Nutrients for Malnourished children)