{"id":26485,"date":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/prayer-diary-faith-and-a-future-4594\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:57:32","slug":"prayer-diary-faith-and-a-future-4594","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/prayer-diary-faith-and-a-future-4594\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Diary: Faith and a Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0180bf3f15e67eb8e8b78d5ba3e35184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year Iranian church leader Yousef Nadarkhani went on hunger strike for three weeks. His sons, Yoel and Daniel, have been prevented from continuing their education until they agree to take Islamic religious classes. And although their father is in prison, he didn\u2019t let that stop him taking a stand for his children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the world, countless children experience abuse and discrimination at school because of their faith &#8211; some are even forced out of education. That\u2019s why we launched the Faith and a Future campaign, to ensure every child can have both faith and a future. Read more on p.2 of the January issue of Response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Sunday 29 March<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask God to move powerfully in the hearts of the Iranian authorities to allow Yoel, 15, and Daniel, 17, to return to school. Their father has been fighting for 11 years for his children\u2019s educational rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Monday 30 March<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank God for Pastor Nadarkhani\u2019s immense courage in undertaking a hunger strike while in prison himself, on false national security charges relating to his church work. His steadfastness has been an inspiration to many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Tuesday 31 March<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give thanks to God that Kevin from Mexico is back in school! His dream is to be a doctor, but his education was interrupted when he and other members of his faith community were driven from their homes. Hundreds of you joined our campaign for Kevin, and he returned to school last September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Wednesday 1 April<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children across Pakistan are learning from textbooks that distort history and encourage discrimination against religious minorities. After we presented a petition signed by over 5,000 CSW supporters to the UK government, officials promised to re-examine their position to ensure UK aid is not used to fund biased textbooks. Praise God for this breakthrough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Thursday 2 April<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17-year-old Leah Sharibu was one of 110 girls abducted from their school in north-eastern Nigeria by terrorists in 2018. The next month, following government negotiations, the surviving girls were taken home. Leah, however, wasn\u2019t released because she refused to convert. Pray for comfort and strength for Leah\u2019s parents, Nathan and Rebecca, and brother Donald; and that she would soon be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Friday 3 April<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2019 Quanquan, the six-year-old son of imprisoned human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, was prevented from going to school due to police pressure on the school. Pray that Quanquan would be able to study in peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Saturday 4 April<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord of all, we thank you for Kevin\u2019s return to school! Truly you are an unstoppable God, and we pray in faith that you will continue to work miracles in the lives of every child we are lifting to you this week. In Jesus\u2019 name. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take action for children\u2019s educational rights at <a href=\"https:\/\/faithandafuture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">faithandafuture.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2020-03-28-prayer.pdf\">Descargue una copia imprimible del Diario de Oraci\u00f3n de esta semana.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pray for the countless children experience abuse and discrimination at school because of their faith &#8211; some are even forced out of education.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":8169,"template":"","regions":[],"class_list":["post-26485","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26485","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\/26485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41155,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26485\/revisions\/41155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}