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Read or share the email edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n June 20 was World Refugee Day\u2026 and a quick look at the numbers (see below) reminds us how many more are displaced within their own countries, as well. Let\u2019s pray for them too, and places like northeast India, where more than 40,000 people have been displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Northern Hemisphere, this is also the time of the summer solstice\u2014something we all may experience but more emphasized by those in some pagan groups. Does anyone know of a Christian guide to praying for Wiccans? I found some good fuel for prayer on Wikipedia<\/a> and a Religion News Service story about a new religious group in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today would be a great day to pray for the light of Christ to overcome the darkness experienced by many in our world (John 1:5<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this edition: Read or share the email edition. Greetings! June 20 was World Refugee Day\u2026 and a quick look at the numbers (see below) reminds us how many more are displaced within their own countries, as well. Let\u2019s pray for them too, and places like northeast India, where more than 40,000 people have been … Continue reading World News Briefs from Mali, Nigeria, the Middle East & More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Greetings!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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