{"id":26102,"date":"2012-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/persecutors-421\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:28","slug":"persecutors-421","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/prayer\/persecutors-421\/","title":{"rendered":"Persecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Lord Jesus, you taught us to pray for those who mistreat us (Luke 6:28), help us as we pray for those who mistreat your Church.<\/b><\/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>Pray for compassion for the leaders of countries that suppress religious freedom, such as Eritrea, and Iran.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for mercy for those in authority in the nations of China and North Korea.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray a blessing upon those who oppress freedom in Burma and Cuba, that they would become a channel of peace.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for reconciliation between the injured and the injurers. Pray that forgiveness may be sought.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for wisdom for those that govern, that they would govern justly.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>May God grant His Church an attitude of forgiveness and the continuing faith to bless and pray for those who oppose them.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Jesus, you taught us to pray for those who mistreat us (Luke 6:28), help us as we pray for those who mistreat your Church.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[],"class_list":["post-26102","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40772,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26102\/revisions\/40772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}