And [Elijah] said to her, “Give me your son,” and he took him out of her arms and carried him up to a loft where he slept and laid him on his own bed. He cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, have You brought tragedy upon the widow with whom I live by killing her son?” And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, I pray that You let this child’s soul come into him again.”
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he was revived. Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and returned him to his mother, and Elijah said, “See, your son lives!” (1 Kings 17:19-23)
The icon is of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (July 20th).
CWN - Launching a new peace initiative, the Southern Sudan Council of Churches again called upon belligerents in the nation’s 20-month civil war to lay down their arms.
“War has made people indifferent to human life,” said Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro of Juba, according to the Fides news agency. “People are dying and nobody cares.”
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