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Embrace’s Christian partners face many challenges working in situations of conflict, injustice and poverty. We ask you to join us in praying for the health and resilience of all our partners and their communities. You can download our prayer diary and find more prayer resources in our Prayer Room.
Weekly devotion: Medical care for refugees in Egypt
This week we’re learning about the amazing medical work our partner, Refuge Egypt, does among some of the most marginalised people in Egypt’s society. We’re also meditating on some words from Psalm 56.
Weekly devotion: Reflecting Christ’s compassion
This week we’re praying for mental health services that our partner, the Karagheusian Health Centre, provide for people in a marginalised neighbourhood in Beirut. We’re also reflecting on how we can imitate the compassion that Christ showed to people in need.
A Prayer for Syria
Please join us in praying for the people of Syria at a time of uncertainty and transition.
Weekly devotion: What makes a good listener?
This week we’re praying for a project that takes a grassroots approach towards achieving peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. We’re also reflecting on the importance of sharing our stories and actively listening to other people.
Prayer: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, join us in prayer for our Palestinian sisters and brothers - and in taking some simple advocacy actions.
Weekly devotion: Choosing hope in hopeless situations
The education system in Lebanon is in its sixth year of disruption, affecting 1.5 million children. Join us in praying for our partner, the Joint Christian Committee, as they seek to provide marginalised and displaced children with educational and psychosocial support.
Weekly devotion: Are you a life-giver?
This week, we’re praying for Maryamana Hospital in northern Iraq - and reflecting on how we can follow Christ’s example to be a life-giver to those around us.
Weekly devotion: Let your light shine before others
This week, we are praying for the hundreds of inspiring and compassionate people who work for our partner organisations across the Middle East.
Weekly devotion: Open the eyes of our hearts
This week we’re reflecting on what happens when we live with our spiritual eyes wide open. We’re also giving thanks for an incredible project that supports visually impaired children in economically marginalised areas of Egypt.
Weekly devotion: Beacons of light in Bethlehem
This week, we’re praying for a new project we’re supporting through the Palestinian organisation Anar, which helps young people in Bethlehem to find hope in a context of occupation, military presence and restriction of movement.
Weekly devotion: Pray for the olive harvest in Palestine
This week, we’re praying for the olive harvest in the West Bank. Using the words of Psalm 1, we are also reflecting on what it means to make a stand for righteousness and justice.
Weekly devotion: Pray for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza
In recent weeks, Al Ahli Hospital has once again become a main responder to the increased violence currently playing out in the north of Gaza. It is taking the dead and injured from Al Shati camp, as well as patients from the three hospitals in the north. It is short on blood, medicines and food.
Weekly devotion: ‘Do not forget to do good’
This week, we’re praying for a project in Egypt that trains young people to mentor primary-age children, to encourage them to stay in school. We’re also reflecting on the biblical mandate to help others, and challenging ourselves to be a blessing to those around us.
Weekly devotion: Pray for those living in fear in Lebanon
This week we are praying for our partner, Tahaddi, in southern Beirut. As the bombs fall near to Tahaddi's building, we lift up the staff and families they serve to God.
Weekly devotion: Living as one household of God
This week we are giving thanks for for all of those who are no longer with us, but whose memory lives on through their ongoing support of Embrace’s work.
Weekly devotion: Empowering at-risk girls in northern Israel
This week we’re praying for a project we help fund in northern Israel, which supports at-risk Arab-Israeli girls with education and family challenges.
Weekly devotion: How does your social network reflect your priorities?
This week we’re praying for the children and their families at Fairhaven School in Alexandria, Egypt - and meditating on Jesus’ grace-filled interactions with people who were socially stigmatised.
Weekly devotion: The God who sees
Gender-based violence is an issue of growing concern in Syria. This week, join us in praying for a project that is supporting women and girls who have experienced abuse.
Weekly devotion: How do you respond to uncomfortable realities?
This week we’re praying for our partner, Aviv Ministry, which runs a drop-in centre for people living on the streets of Tel Aviv.
Weekly devotion: What does ‘genuine love’ look like?
This week we’re praying for our partner BLESS in Egypt, which supports marginalised communities to improve their educational, health and environmental situations.