Regional Updates – Derech Avraham

Israel, Lebanon, Armenia and Turkey… and the power of prayer

With Israel finally recognizing the Armenian Genocide and groundbreaking peace deals against all odds with Lebanon, we are living in extraordinary days. It reminds us that our confidence should be in prayer, n...

‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’: Remembering Yaron Lischinsky and his legacy towards Middle East Peace

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim had been working to advance peace in the Middle East at the Israeli embassy in Washington. Just days before Yaron was about to take Sarah to Jerusalem to propose, they were g...

Stirrings in Sinai: Prepare the Way of the Lord

Sinai, typically understood as the triangular peninsular of Egypt, can refer to an area that extends over the Red Sea into Saudi Arabia. It is this whole area — stretching from the easterly coast of the Eg...

Standing with Lebanon for the rebirth of a Nation

The winds of change have been blowing in Lebanon for some time now, and prophetic intercessors have had the heads up that peace with Israel was on the way, even as we heard at our last Crossroads gathering...

The Significance of Cyprus as Part of the Isaiah 19 Highway

“In the scriptures there’s a clear connection between Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Antioch and it has to do with the birth of the missions movement from Acts 13,” Michael Kerem explains. “It’s also the place where w...

The Latest from Lebanon

A Lebanese pastor told us about the dramatic developments happening in his country. "The most important thing is that for the first time since Hezbollah's existence, the government made a decision and said tha...

Prayer points for the current situation in the Middle East

Here are some suggestions on how to pray for our region at this pivotal time in history. ▫️Please pray for the unity of the people of Iran. It’s more important now than ever before that people would stay un...

Urgent Prayer for Syria: Voices from the Ground

We just held a prayer call focusing on the Kurds in Syria, where believers on the ground (identified by their initial) shared the following points for prayer: The US has decided to switch support from the K...

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

Exactly a year ago, we wrote to ask for prayer for northeast Syria, for the Kurdish enclave of Rojava (also known as the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria, AANES). There’s some good news and some b...

The Implications if the Iranian Regime were to fall

Famous for being the number one sponsor of terror in the world, a serious persecutor of Christians, and wishing death on everyone, the Iranian regime wouldn’t be missed by many if it went. But what might b...