Prayer Updates – Page 4 – Derech Avraham

Turkish Jews call for tightened state security against ISIS threat (JPost)

"Turkey’s organized Jewish community on Tuesday called on Ankara to boost security at its institutions across the country following reports claiming that an attack by the Islamic State terrorist group is 'immin...

Turkish gov’t expropriates Diyarbakir churches

At the Crossroads partners in Diyarbakir write that the Turkish government has decided to confiscate their church building. "According to the cabinet decision published in Official Journal on March 25, an 'urg...

ATC conference 2016: How to Pray

We are excited to announce our next At the Crossroads conference will be March 21-23, 2016 in Jerusalem. This is an invitation-only conference. Workers in God's Kingdom from across the Middle East will meet to...

Fighting pushes Diyarbakir church out of building

Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Diyarbakir, Turkey. We've learned that they haven't been able to meet in their building as a result of a crackdown by the Turkish government on the banned Kurdistan W...

Syrian refugee camp in crossfire

We received a prayer request from a contact in a Syrian refugee camp early Tuesday morning saying, "Please pray for our Rojava region and people. Pray to the Lord to stop Turkey's wanton attacks." At the Cross...

European Parliament Recognizes ISIS Killing of Religious Minorities as Genocide

"The European Parliament unanimously passed a resolution on February 4 recognizing the Islamic State militant group’s (ISIS) systematic killing and persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East as a g...

Undoing Years of Progress in Turkey

This op-ed published by the New York Times was written by a friend of At the Crossroads. The former mayor of Diyarbakir has worked to foster co-existence and even cooperation among the many different Christians...

Israel’s SodaStream wants to hire Syrian refugees (WPost)

"Some people might think he’s living in a bubble, but Daniel Birnbaum, chief executive of Israeli fizzy drinks maker SodaStream, said this week he wants to hire 200 Syrian refugees to work in his new factory. ...

ISIS executes 12 Christians for refusing to renounce Jesus

"The horrific executions took place last Aug. 28 in an unnamed village outside Aleppo, Syria, according to Christian Aid Mission, a humanitarian group that assists indigenous Christian workers in their native c...

Brothers in Turkey threatened as others study together in Cyprus

Middle East School of Disciples Several At the Crossroads leaders traveled in September to North Cyprus to participate in the Middle East School of Disciples (MESD). It was a special time with students from Je...

Urgent Prayer for Syria: Voices from the Ground

Reluctantly Redrawing the Map of Syria: Back to the Days of ISIS?

The Implications if the Iranian Regime were to fall

Armenia’s first national prayer breakfast for over 1000 years