• Pray for Isa Bradbridge and his wife Ina, a Catholic lay person, who have has been captured by one of the militia groups.

• Pray for the ministers and around 100 refugees in the Hosanna Church, the central Protestant church in Dili.

• Pray for the evacuation of Don and Di Van Cooten from Kupang in West Timor, that the evacuation arrangements will go smoothly.

There are two prayers for the crisis in Timor available.

Read the prayers used at the special Service of Prayer for Peace and Reconciliation in East Timor, held at 5.15pm in St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney on 9 September 1999.