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All Arab News editor Joel C. Rosenberg asks Christians around the world to keep praying for @ErakatSaeb. “We are commanded in the Scriptures to love our neighbors, and Saeb Erekat is our neighbor,” Rosenberg says. https://allarab.news/condition-of-plo-leader-saeb-erekat-deteriorates-in-israeli-hospital/
Be careful. Lots of fake news out there — but not at @all_arab_news — we can report that @ErakatSaeb is alive but struggling with COVID and pneumonia. Please continue praying urgently and faithfully for him and his family in this very hard time. https://twitter.com/joelcrosenberg/status/1318073996970201088
I ask Evangelicals around the world to pray for a miraculous recovery for @ErakatSaeb, the senior Palestinian official battling COVID who is now in a coma and was moved yesterday to intensive care in Israel’s Hadassah Hospital. May the Lord have mercy on him and his family.
