Please Pray For The Tarfa Family.

Hi, ‘Thank you so much for all your prayers and support. I left the court to call you so you can also thank all of my brothers and sisters who prayed and tell them God has answered.’ - Mrs Mercy Tarfa Earlier this year, we celebrated the release of Professor Tarfa  from imprisonment in Nigeria, after his conviction on false charges of forgery was overturned. He was initially arrested on Christmas Day in 2019 and has spent most of the next three years imprisoned.   As you may be aware, he and his wife Mercy have faced harassment ever since they opened a Christian orphanage in Kano State in 1996. That’s over 25 years.   In 2021, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded they were being ‘singled out because of their Christian faith and because they are running an orphanage in a predominantly Muslim area.’   However, their ordeal is not over yet.  Despite the professor’s acquittal in 2021 of child abduction charges, 16 Du Merci children are still being held in government orphanages. They are traumatised by the lengthy separation from the Tarfas, and several have experienced emotional and physical abuse.  On 28 November, the Tarfas’ legal case for the children’s return resumes, following several deferrals. Aside from the financial implications, these deferrals further prolonged their suffering and separation from the children.  So we’re asking you, Les, to continue to pray with us for the Tarfa family to finally be reunited. Three ways you can pray for the Tarfa family in Nigeria today:  Pray that justice is finally served, and that the hearing will result in the swift return of their children. Sixteen of the children who were forcibly removed from the Du Merci centres in Kano and Kaduna in December 2019 remain in government-run orphanages. Pray that the new court case will be successful, and for justice to be served. Pray for the whole Tarfa family, for healing from the trauma of separation, confinement and mistreatment.  Finally, pray for God to restore what has been lost to them, for compensation and for reparations.  Thank you for standing with this family.