Praying for the Korean Peninsula

21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for North Korea

In response to the urgent needs in North Korea, our Ignis leadership met on Monday, September 6th. That day also happened to be Rosh Hashanah on the Jewish calendar, or the Jewish New Year. Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah by blasting a ram’s horn, trumpeting in the new year. One meaning of the horn blast or the shofar is to awaken those who are in slumber, to call people to repentance.

We want our hearts to wake up. In this pandemic situation, which seems to have stopped and stopped, we wake up from where we all stopped, feel the urgency of moving toward our neighbors who are suffering from fasting and prayer.

We invite you to join us December 1 to 21 in our fourth round of 21 days of praying and fasting for North Korea. From September 16 to until now, Ignis Community has been participating in a relay fast. As we near the end of our second round of 21 days, the situation in North Korea has not changed much, but our hearts remain urgent. We will continue our relay fasting prayer until North Korea's border is reopened.