Basque Country Prayer Points for March 2024
Prayer Points and verse for the week:
Prayers points:
- Recently the Basque police visited the local schools to talk with students about the dangers of social media. They have seen a rise in Sexting, Grooming, Sextorison and cyberbullying.
- Pray for the young people, parents, school staff, and government officials as they work to address this problem.
- Farmers in the Gipuzkoa region have recently held protests in the streets due to laws being in place that do not allow them to make a livable wage and bureaucratic processes. These protests are happening in several other regions of Spain and greater Europe as farmers look to address these issues.
- Pray for the farmers and political leaders as they look for solutions to address these problems.
- Young adults trying to start life in Basque Country are finding it challenging with salaries not being high enough to live on their own. Most young people are having to live with their parents into their late 20s/early 30s due to wages required to be independent.
- Pray for young people, their parents, businesses and the government as they explore options to help young people start life.
- The Spanish Catholic Church has elected new leadership with Luis Argüello being president and José Cobo being the vice president. They will face many challenges in the upcoming 4 years of their term with the number of priests reaching retirement age, the abuse scandals and the continued secularization of Spain.
- Pray for these church leaders as they look to guide the Catholic church over the upcoming term.
- Basque elections will be happening at the end of April and 25 seats in the congress will be elected, which could result in a change in the controlling party.
- Pray for the political candidates and citizens as they prepare to vote in the upcoming elections.
- Spain has chosen to continue with the budget from 2023 and not make updates for 2024. They will work to make changes for the 2025 budget. One reason for continuing with the 2023 budget is because it took quite some time to elect new leadership after the summer elections.
- Pray for political & government department leaders as they work through having the same budget as the previous year when changes may have been expected.
The verse for the week:
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
Romans 1:16 NIV