Brothers and Sisters,

The following is from an email that I've recently received from a friend in Yemen regarding the current political situation.  Please pray that the Gospel of grace would capture the heart of many other Yemenis.

Many thanks for all e-mails, short messages, and telephone calls that are sent asking about us and the current situations within these critical times in Yemen. It is very important to mention that by His grace, we are safe and working hard to be away from the protest locations. The government declared the state of emergency and imposed a set of severe measures concerning communications, media coverage, civilian freedoms, moving to other cities and carrying weapons. As learned, there are groups of mediators of tribal leaders and princes from Saudi Arabia trying to dissolve the conflict between the regime and oppositional parties. Yesterday evening, President Saleh accepted an initiative offered by the opposition which called him to step down at the end of 2011 after performing general parliamentary Elections and agreeing upon a new constitution. We do not know if the opposition sees positively to this step or not, but we are afraid of what the opposition plans to do next Friday which called " Friday of March" to the Republican Palace.

Meanwhile, we have learned that most of the foreign "workers" have left Yemen to their countries or neighboring countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia or UAE. Yet, we are in connection with other "workers" that still stay in Yemen.

In the same way, We believe this makes an opportunity for people in Yemen to receive Him and being transformed in Christ who bring His light to their lives. Please, Pray for Yemen and for Yemeni people.

Marc Glass