Luke 1: 72-73: To show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father Abraham.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, you keep what you promise. You promised Abraham in Genesis 12: 3: “All peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” This promise is fulfilled in Jesus, a descendant of Abraham.
Paul writes in Ephesians 1:3: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.”
Thank you for keeping your word. So we can lives on your promises. You promised: Whoever invites Jesus into his life and lets himself be changed by the Holy Spirit, you will complete his life, as Paul says in Philippians 1: 6: “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Thank you for your mercy on our lives. We live on your mercy and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
With one voice the Iraqi parliament decided Christmas will now also be a national holiday in Iraq.
While Jews in Dubai and the UAE can wear their kippah openly without fear, they dare to do it less and less in Europe.
In March, Francis wants to be the first Pope to visit Iraq. He knows Muslims must be won if religious minorities can have a future. He is of course aware of the afflictions and persecution that Christians under the Muslim world face, not at least in Iraq. At the same time, however, he wants to help strengthen that delicate plant of Islamic self-reflection that is currently sprouting.
In at least five cities in England large banners have appeared on public buses reading: “Muhammad Dawat-e-Islami, a mercy to the entire creation.”
On December 21, 2020 there will be an unusual planetary constellation in the sky. It should be on the evening of December 21 at exactly 7:21 p.m. CET. In the evening hours there will be a so-called Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. This means that both planets are approaching each other in the sky, are only 0.1 degrees apart and thus seem to join into “one bright star”. What is special about it is that the two planets last came as close to each other in 1623 as they did in 2020. 
“I know a lot of refugees who want to become Christians, but they are too scared,” said Zawadi. Zawadi’s decision to follow Christ pleased her husband David, who had prayed for his wife for ten years.