FP – For 100 years, the United States has championed democracies around the world. Trump is about to undo this pillar of American security and decency.

FP – For 100 years, the United States has championed democracies around the world. Trump is about to undo this pillar of American security and decency.

Giêsu ơi,
Xin giúp chúng em thực hành đạo đức nghề nghiệp tốt
để đất nước chúng em được tự do.
Tự do khỏi đói nghèo.
Tự do khỏi lạc hậu.
Xin giúp chúng em vinh danh Giêsu. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 39 – Prayer 39

By Scott Patterson, Biman Mukherji and Vu Trong Khanh
Dec. 1, 2016 5:30 a.m. ET
WSJ_VUNG TAU, Vietnam—One of the world’s largest aluminum stockpiles, which until a few months ago was stored under hay and plastic tarp in a Mexican desert, has been moved to a remote port here in southern Vietnam.
Jesus,
Would you like to travel by our trains?
I like to travel by trains
for they go slow
so I could enjoy the scenes
and view people around me. Continue reading Prayer 38
The Guardian
In 2014 alone China invested £56bn in African infrastructure. But is this colonialism in another guise?

Ethiopia’s light rail system was built mainly with Chinese money. Photograph: Solan Kolli/EPA
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Addis Ababa has a surprise in store for those who haven’t visited in two years. Cutting through the heart of this booming city, where construction cranes are the most persistent feature of the skyline, is the Addis Ababa Light Rapid Transit (AALRT) network.
Jesus,
I miss you.
The cities under our plane are beautiful.
You view the scene with me
while you lift the plane up. Continue reading Prayer 37
The Guardian – Activists say British authorities are failing to identify and protect victims who have been trafficked to the UK as slaves, many of them children

Detained Vietnamese migrants who were smuggled into the UK in a van. Many arrive with debts of up to £25,000 for their passage. Photograph: Solent News/Rex/Shutterstock
Tuesday 20 December 2016 2.00 EST
Jesus,
Happy birthday to you!
I wish you everlasting happiness (though you are the source of happiness to the world 🙂 )
Recently I feel I don’t talk to you much.
I’m sorry.
Maybe you are unhappy about that. Continue reading Prayer 36
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu biết không,
khi Giêsu bị thử thách trong hoang mạc,
em thích cách Giêsu nói với Chúa Quỷ,
“Tránh xa ta, Satan!” Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 35 – Prayer 35
theconversation_The development of the internet has completely transformed the way we do business; and the “oldest profession” is no exception. In a world of online chatrooms, webcam performers can market anything from conversation to explicit sex acts. And unlike pornography or prostitution, there are virtually no laws regulating this form of sex work.

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Jesus,
Our Father is working until now,
and you are working,
so we are also working.
Teach us how we could work with the best quality possible.
Teach us how we should wait on you so that you would be well pleased.
And work with us.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen
PTH
DEC. 20, 2016 New York Times

White-clad devotees at Dhammakaya Wat, Thailand’s largest temple, in February. The number of adherents has grown into the hundreds of thousands both in Thailand and abroad. Credit Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
PATHUM THANI, Thailand — It is a temple for a changing Thailand: clean, unadorned, high-tech and unashamed of praying for wealth.
“Sit here and get rich,” read small medallions embedded in the floor under each white plastic chair in a vast, open-sided meditation center. In his sermons, the temple’s charismatic 72-year-old leader, Phra Dhammachayo, often exhorts his adherents, “Be rich, be rich, be rich!”
Giêsu ơi,
Chúng em đang làm điều không thể.
Nhưng điều không thể với con người thì có thể với Giêsu.
Và nếu Giêsu thấy điều chúng em làm đẹp lòng Giêsu, xin ban phước cho điều đó,
biến nó thành điều có thể. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 33 – Prayer 33
YANGON: The 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday (Dec 19) offered Myanmar humanitarian assistance, stressing that aid be distributed to those affected in northern Rakhine state.
Speaking after a closed-door meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh said that “we need to help Myanmar overcome this challenge”.
Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi walk after they attended ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting on Rohingya issue in Sedona hotel at Yangon, Myanmar December 19 , 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu biết mọi sự trong vũ trụ.
Xin cho chúng em biết
vấn đề nào quan trọng nhất đối với đất nước chúng em?
Và làm sao giải quyết những vấn đề đó? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 32 – Prayer 32