{"id":26147,"date":"2013-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/eritrea-471\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:34","slug":"eritrea-471","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/eritrea-471\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Last summer, after years of campaigning with supporters like you, we won a major victory for the Eritrean people. On 5 July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council voted to appoint a Special Rapporteur, an expert who will investigate the infamous human rights situation in Eritrea.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week the UN will decide whether to renew the Special Rapporteur&#8217;s mandate. It&#8217;s absolutely vital that the mandate is renewed \u2013 and that&#8217;s where you come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was your prayers that brought the breakthrough last summer, and it&#8217;s your prayers that will help get the Special Rapporteur&#8217;s mandate renewed so she can continue her vital work, alerting the UN to the realities of a country with tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience, including up to 3,000 Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote will take place this week, so please pray!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Thank God for the appointment last July of the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea, Ms Sheila Keetharuth, after years of joint lobbying and prayer;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the Human Rights Council will renew her mandate;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to give her wisdom as she works to report honestly on a heartbreaking situation;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the work she&#8217;s done over the last year will prove valuable as the UN holds Eritrea to account for its human rights abuses;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the Eritrean Government would allow her to visit the country so she can see the situation at first hand;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to guide Matthew Jones, CSW&#8217;s Senior Public Affairs Officer as he works with the UN on Eritrea;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for encouragement for Eritrean church leaders, leading underground congregations in one of the most oppressive countries for Christians, and for those leading churches for refugees.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Watch the video \u2013 visit www.csw.org.uk\/eritrea to watch an interview with Matthew Jones, CSW&#8217;s Senior UN Advocate, about the day the UN appointed the Special Rapporteur.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, after years of campaigning with supporters like you, we won a major victory for the Eritrean people. On 5 July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council voted to appoint a Special Rapporteur, an expert who will investigate the infamous human rights situation in Eritrea.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[154,152],"class_list":["post-26147","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-eritrea","regions-sub-saharan-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40817,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26147\/revisions\/40817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}