They went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Matthew 2:9-11
God bless you all! Merry Christmas!
Last week Dad, Steven and I went to Uzhgorod with a team of other YWAMers for our annual Christmas program in the orphanage. I really feel like this year went even better than last. You see, last year the orphans where just that to me: “The Orphans”. But a year later, after multiple visits to the orphanage and our week long summer camp, they aren’t “The Orphans” anymore… they’re Sasha, Evan, Aurthur and Joseph. Oh, there are more then four of them, but my point is now they are individuals. We have relationships, we can communicate much better, I know them and they know me.
Here’s a sort of travel diary of our time in Uzhgorod. (more…)
Matthew Hill, BBC Correspondent:
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.
But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies…
Click here to read the rest of “Ukraine babies in stem cell probe”
This is almost unbelievable, I hope it’s not true. I don’t know what to say. Please pray for Ukraine. Pray for the unborn. Pray for the children. Pray that God will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children.
[Update:] The Daily Mail has picked up the story and has more details.
Warning: the article is very graphic and disturbing.
The babies who are murdered to order - Matthew HIll, DailyMail.co.uk