Often big news stories can make us feel overwhelmed when it comes to pray. How do we contend for God’s will? How do we pray when the news cycle has moved on to the next big story? What’s the right thing to pray?
Yemen, one of the Arab world’s poorest nations, has been at civil war for the last seven years. War broke out between the Saudi-led coalition backing the official government and a rebel group called the Houthis. The war has only increased in violence this year, with air strikes intensifying.
All of this has a huge human cost: the United Nations have said the Yemen conflict has produced the largest humanitarian crisis in the world with 24.1 million people, 80% of the population, needing humanitarian aid and protection*.
19 million Yeminis will go hungry in the coming months with 160,000 facing famine-like conditions. More than 10,200 children have been killed or wounded as a direct result of fighting.
