Prayer Requests

Dear All - please read the blurb below and pray - for those who don't know this Sister Arul is the nun looking after the Young Hope project with all the orphans and children in Sri-Lanka. The area is in civil war once again and things are not good for the children living there.

Thanks for your prayer, Priya xxx

My mum has just spoken with Sister Arul in Sri-Lanka. They are in a very difficult situation of war footing. For the past month it has felt like being in a prison said sister, as they are not allowed to travel and so are running out of food. Even the banks are not open for more than one hour a day, that’s if you can get to one. Daily the area is under attack with much shelling and many deaths. The children come to them in fear asking the sisters for advice and the sisters are unable to give any. Many families are fleeing in fear and are being displaced.

PLEASE PRAY
For a lasting peace in this land.
For the safety of the Sisters and the children
For the prevention of the older children being forced into joining in the fighting
For the families that have no choice but to flee as their huts are being shelled.
For the continued courage of Sister Arul and the two other nuns who are bravely standing firm offering Love and support to all around them.
The sisters are very certain of God’s hand on their lives and that God has sustained them and will carry on to meet their needs. They are grateful to all those who join us in praying for them regularly and feel that God will bring about His mighty miracle in answer to all our prayers. These women are mighty warriors of FAITH. We praise God for them.

Problems with peace talks

The following is taken form lanaknewspapers and shows the sitiuation in Sri-Lanka at present. Many people are being killed just whilst going around their daily lives. Please pray for the safety of the nuns and children in Trincomalle where a lot of this fighting is occurring.

Sri Lanka`s Tamil Tiger rebels pulled out of peace talks indefinitely on Thursday, saying the island was heading for war and dashing hopes that a Norwegian peace mission could stem rising violence. About 80 people have been killed in the past two weeks in a series of suspected Tiger attacks, ethnic riots and unsolved murders which the two sides blame on each other. Talks due to take place in Switzerland next week had been seen as the best chance to reduce tension, but the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on Thursday they would not attend until `normality` returned. `We are not in a position to attend the Geneva talks on the currently decided dates under the present environment,` head of the LTTE political wing S.P. Thamilselvan told reporters. `It is the government that is creating a war-like situation and pushing us towards war.`

Priya

News... Bombs near Trinco

Below is an excerpt from the BBC news website...

Two Britons are thought to have been injured after a bus hit a mine in north-eastern Sri Lanka.
The British tourists had been travelling in another vehicle. The bus was carrying troops from Trincomalee. The Foreign Office said the Britons did not have life-threatening injuries and the bus had veered into their minibus. Officials in Sri Lanka have blamed the blast on Tamil rebels.
The bus attack took place as the vehicle travelled from the port town of Trincomalee to Colombo, according to a military spokesman. According to the Foreign Office, the injured Britons had been travelling with a Sri Lankan and another Briton in a minibus when the bus veered into them.

Scary reading as this is the way we would normally travel to Trinco - this shows how unsafe things really are out there at the moment.

Priya