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frontier · approximately 0.02% Christian
Pray for Afghanistan
Afghanistan remains one of the most challenging mission fields in the world. With less than 0.1% Christian, it is a frontier nation in need of sustained prayer, compassionate service, and Gospel hope.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Afghan believers meeting in secret — for courage, for protection, and for at least one other believer they can trust.
- Ask God to sustain families where one member has come to Christ and the rest have not.
- Pray for Afghan refugees across Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and Europe, where the Gospel reaches them freely.
- Pray for the Pashtun and Tajik peoples — millions who have never heard the name of Jesus explained even once.
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less-reached · approximately 17% Christian
Pray for Albania
Albania, once the world's first officially atheist state, is now experiencing a renewed openness to faith. The Gospel continues to take root in this Balkan nation.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for a church that exists where atheism was once the law.
- Pray for young Albanian leaders to stay, or to plant churches among Albanians abroad.
- Ask God to move among Albania's Muslim majority, where identity is often cultural rather than devout.
- Pray for churches in rural towns where believers may number only a handful.
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less-reached · approximately 2% Christian
Pray for Algeria
Algeria has seen significant Christian witness grow within a predominantly Muslim context. Believers continue to need prayer for mature discipleship, courage, and gracious relationships.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for the Kabyle movement — one of the clearest answers to a century of prayer for North Africa.
- Pray for churches ordered closed to be allowed to reopen, and for believers facing fines and court dates.
- Ask God to carry the movement beyond the Kabyle into Arabized Algeria.
- Pray for first-generation believers discipling parents and children at the same time.
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unreached · approximately 0.5% Christian
Pray for Bangladesh
One of the most densely populated nations on earth, and one of the least reached.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Bengali Muslim-background believers meeting quietly in homes.
- Ask God for Bangladeshi leaders able to disciple in Bengali, in Bengali culture.
- Pray for the church's care of neighbours through floods, cyclones and displacement.
- Pray for the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar — a people almost entirely without Gospel access.
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reached · approximately 85% Christian
Pray for Brazil
A mission field that became one of the world's great missionary-sending nations.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for a nation that received the Gospel and now carries it to others.
- Pray for depth — for discipleship that outlasts an emotional decision.
- Ask God to protect Brazilian workers serving in difficult and dangerous places.
- Pray for Amazonian indigenous peoples still without Scripture in their language.
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less-reached · approximately 53% Christian
Pray for Canada
Home ground for this movement — and one of the fastest-secularising nations in the West.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the twelve Love on Cities outreach groups meeting weekly across Canada.
- Ask God to wake the Canadian church from comfort into ordinary, weekly obedience.
- Pray for newcomers from closed nations — that the first Christian they meet would be worth knowing.
- Pray for Indigenous communities, and for reconciliation that is more than words.
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unreached · approximately 7% Christian
Pray for China
Perhaps the largest church growth in history happened where it was forbidden.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for what He did in China when no one could see it.
- Pray for house-church leaders under surveillance and for pastors who have been detained.
- Ask God to protect the discipleship of children where teaching them is restricted.
- Pray for China's Hui Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists — large peoples still almost entirely unreached.
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reached · approximately 90% Christian
Pray for Colombia
A nation emerging from decades of armed conflict, where churches are on the front line of peace, reconciliation and Venezuelan migration.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for Colombian believers who have chosen forgiveness after decades of violence.
- Pray for pastors threatened by armed groups in rural areas.
- Ask God to sustain churches caring for Venezuelan families who have lost everything.
- Pray for the Gospel to reach the small indigenous peoples still without a church.
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less-reached · approximately 59% Christian
Pray for Cuba
After decades of official atheism, a house-church movement that grew faster than the state could contain it.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for the Cuban house-church movement.
- Pray for pastors who remain under surveillance and pressure.
- Ask God to raise up new leaders to replace those who have emigrated.
- Pray for families struggling with shortages of food, medicine and electricity.
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reached · approximately 93% Christian
Pray for DR Congo
Africa's largest Catholic nation and one of its largest Christian populations — and a church under fire in the east.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for believers in North Kivu and Ituri facing violent attacks.
- Pray for millions displaced by conflict in the east.
- Ask God for church leaders who model integrity in a nation scarred by corruption.
- Thank God for the Congolese church's schools, clinics and faithful witness.
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less-reached · approximately 10% Christian
Pray for Egypt
The largest Christian community in the Middle East has been here since the first century.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for a church that has endured in Egypt for nearly two thousand years.
- Pray for Coptic and evangelical believers facing discrimination and, at times, violence.
- Ask God to bless Egypt's Christians with favour among their Muslim neighbours.
- Pray for Egyptian workers carrying the Gospel across the wider Arab world.
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reached · approximately 65% Christian
Pray for Ethiopia
One of the oldest Christian nations on earth is also one of the fastest-growing.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for a church that has stood in Ethiopia for over 1,600 years.
- Pray for peace and reconciliation across ethnic lines, and for the church to lead it.
- Ask God to bless Ethiopian workers reaching Somali and Afar peoples.
- Pray for displaced families and for churches caring for them.
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less-reached · approximately 48% Christian
Pray for France
A nation full of cathedrals where roughly one person in a hundred is an evangelical believer.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for French towns with no evangelical church of any kind.
- Ask God to bless African and Caribbean congregations sending the Gospel back into France.
- Pray for young French believers to stay and plant rather than leave.
- Pray for North African immigrant communities — reachable in Paris as they are not in Algiers.
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less-reached · approximately 48% Christian
Pray for Germany
The birthplace of the Reformation, where church membership has fallen below half the population for the first time.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for renewal in the land of the Reformation.
- Thank God for refugees from closed nations finding Christ in Germany.
- Ask God for churches that can welcome Turkish and Kurdish neighbours.
- Pray for a generation that has left the church to encounter Jesus himself.
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unreached · approximately 2.4% Christian
Pray for India
No nation on earth holds more people who have never heard of Jesus.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the more than two thousand unreached peoples of India — most have no church at all.
- Ask God to protect Indian believers facing anti-conversion laws and violence.
- Pray for house-church movements multiplying across the Hindi belt.
- Pray for Dalit communities, where the Gospel has often been most welcome.
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less-reached · approximately 10% Christian
Pray for Indonesia
The world's largest Muslim nation also holds one of Asia's largest churches.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the Sundanese — around forty million people with very few known believers.
- Ask God to protect churches in regions where building permits are refused or withdrawn.
- Pray for Indonesian believers crossing island and ethnic lines with the Gospel.
- Pray for unity between Indonesia's many Christian traditions.
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frontier · approximately 0.5% Christian
Pray for Iran
Officially one of the most closed nations on earth — and home to one of the fastest-growing churches in the world.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for what He is doing in Iran against every human expectation.
- Pray for imprisoned believers and for the families left behind.
- Ask God to keep multiplying house churches faster than they can be shut down.
- Pray for Iranians meeting Christ through dreams — a reported pattern too common to dismiss.
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unreached · approximately 0.4% Christian
Pray for Iraq
A church that has been here since the first centuries has shrunk by roughly ninety percent in one generation.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the small Christian remnant of Iraq — that it would not disappear.
- Ask God to bless families rebuilding on the Nineveh Plain.
- Pray for Kurdish and Arab believers coming to Christ in a wounded land.
- Pray for forgiveness where memory of atrocity is still fresh.
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unreached · approximately 1.5% Christian
Pray for Japan
The largest unreached nation in the developed world.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Japan — free, wealthy, and still barely reached after 150 years.
- Ask God to raise young Japanese pastors for churches whose leaders are retiring.
- Pray for believers carrying the Gospel to family members who see it as betrayal.
- Pray against the despair and isolation behind Japan's suicide rate.
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reached · approximately 85% Christian
Pray for Kenya
One of Africa's great sending bases, with unreached peoples inside its own borders.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for a Kenyan church that trains and sends across East Africa.
- Pray for Christian love toward Somali neighbours after years of violence.
- Ask God for depth where Christian identity is assumed rather than owned.
- Pray for churches in the arid north, where believers are few and far apart.
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frontier · approximately 1.5% Christian
Pray for Libya
A divided nation where almost every Christian is a foreign worker — and Libyan believers must stay hidden.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the small number of Libyan believers living in secret.
- Pray for Christian migrants detained and abused along the route to Europe.
- Ask God to remember the families of the 21 martyrs of Sirte.
- Pray for peace and a single, just government for Libya.
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less-reached · approximately 9% Christian
Pray for Malaysia
A thriving church in Borneo, and a Malay majority for whom following Jesus is effectively forbidden.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the Malay people, among the largest unreached peoples in Southeast Asia.
- Thank God for the churches of Sabah and Sarawak.
- Pray for justice and comfort for the family of Pastor Raymond Koh.
- Ask God to give Malaysian believers wisdom and courage in a restricted setting.
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unreached · approximately 2.5% Christian
Pray for Mali
A Sahel nation where jihadist insurgency has spread from the north across much of the country.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for believers living under threat in central and northern Mali.
- Pray for the Fulani, Soninke, Songhai and Tuareg peoples to encounter Jesus.
- Ask God for peace and stability in the Sahel.
- Pray for aid workers and churches serving families displaced by violence.
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reached · approximately 89% Christian
Pray for Mexico
One of the largest Christian nations on earth, where evangelical faith is growing fastest in the poor, indigenous south.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for the growth of the church in southern Mexico.
- Pray for indigenous believers expelled from their villages for following Jesus.
- Ask God to protect pastors who stand against cartel violence and extortion.
- Pray for churches serving migrants passing through on their way north.
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less-reached · approximately 2% Christian
Pray for Mongolia
From a handful of known believers in 1990 to a church of tens of thousands in a single generation.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for the growth of the Mongolian church since 1990.
- Pray for well-trained Mongolian leaders for the next generation.
- Ask God to reach nomadic herding communities across the countryside.
- Pray for the Kazakh people of western Mongolia.
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frontier · approximately 0.1% Christian
Pray for Morocco
A quietly growing Moroccan church exists where the law says it cannot.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Moroccan believers meeting in homes with no legal protection.
- Thank God for the Gospel in Darija — the language of the heart, not the mosque.
- Ask God to sustain converts rejected by their families.
- Pray for Berber communities in the Atlas Mountains with no known believers.
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unreached · approximately 6% Christian
Pray for Myanmar
Strong churches among the Chin, Kachin and Karen — and a Buddhist majority that remains among the least reached peoples in Asia.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for believers in Chin, Kachin and Karenni states under military attack.
- Pray for the Bamar people to encounter Jesus.
- Ask God for peace and an end to the civil war.
- Pray for families still recovering from the 2025 earthquake.
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less-reached · approximately 2.5% Christian
Pray for Nepal
From a handful of believers in 1950 to hundreds of thousands today.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for a church that grew from nothing within living memory.
- Pray about anti-conversion laws that put believers at legal risk again.
- Ask God for sound teaching to keep pace with rapid growth.
- Pray for Himalayan Buddhist communities where there is still no church.
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less-reached · approximately 46% Christian
Pray for Nigeria
Africa's largest church, and one of the most dangerous places on earth to belong to it.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Christians in northern and middle-belt Nigeria facing violence.
- Ask God to comfort families who have lost members and homes.
- Pray for Nigerian believers reaching Hausa and Fulani neighbours in love, not retaliation.
- Pray for depth and integrity in a church large enough to shape a nation.
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frontier · approximately 1.5% Christian
Pray for North Korea
Pyongyang was once called the Jerusalem of the East.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for North Korean believers whose faith has been secret for three generations.
- Ask God to sustain Christians in the labour camps.
- Pray for North Korean refugees in China, often reached by Korean-Chinese churches.
- Pray that Pyongyang would again be a city known for prayer.
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unreached · approximately 1.8% Christian
Pray for Pakistan
A Christian minority of several million, most of them poor, most of them faithful.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Pakistani Christians facing blasphemy accusations.
- Ask God to protect Christian girls at risk of abduction and forced marriage.
- Pray for dignity and opportunity for families trapped in sanitation work.
- Pray for Pashtun, Sindhi and Baloch peoples with almost no Gospel witness.
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reached · approximately 90% Christian
Pray for Philippines
Ten million Filipinos live abroad — and many of them carry the Gospel with them.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for Filipino believers witnessing in nations closed to missionaries.
- Pray for overseas workers separated from their families for years.
- Ask God for peace and Gospel witness among the Moro peoples of Mindanao.
- Pray for depth of discipleship in a nation where nearly everyone claims Christ.
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unreached · approximately 14% Christian
Pray for Qatar
Qatar, a nation known for its rapid development, holds a significant spiritual landscape. While predominantly Islamic, a vibrant Christian community thrives within its borders.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for open doors for the Gospel among Qatari nationals.
- Ask God to strengthen migrant believers worshipping far from home.
- Pray for justice and dignity for exploited migrant workers.
- Pray for Qatari families to encounter Christ through the believers already among them.
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reached · approximately 92% Christian
Pray for Romania
Romania holds a rich spiritual tapestry woven with centuries of Christian heritage. With approximately 99% identifying as Christian, it stands as one of the most Christianized countries.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for churches to disciple a generation shaped by emigration.
- Ask God to bless growing Roma churches and Roma-led leadership.
- Pray for renewed courage in a church that once paid dearly for its faith.
- Pray for Romanian workers serving across Eastern Europe.
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less-reached · approximately 71% Christian
Pray for Russia
Russia presents a unique spiritual landscape. The Russian Orthodox Church has long been central to national identity, experiencing a significant resurgence since the Soviet era.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for spiritual awakening beyond cultural Christianity.
- Ask God to sustain believers ministering in restrictive conditions.
- Pray for the Tatar, Chechen and Caucasus peoples — unreached inside a 'Christian' nation.
- Pray for Bible translation into Russia's minority languages.
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reached · approximately 93% Christian
Pray for Rwanda
Rwanda, often called the Land of a Thousand Hills, is a nation with a vibrant and complex spiritual landscape. Christianity is deeply woven into the fabric of Rwandan society.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Gospel-shaped reconciliation, integrity, and unity across churches and communities.
- Ask God to form the next generation into resilient disciples who carry hope into East Africa.
- Pray for survivors still carrying trauma, and for churches walking with them.
- Pray that Rwandan Christianity would be converted, not merely inherited.
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frontier · approximately 4% Christian
Pray for Saudi Arabia
No churches, no public worship — and roughly a million Christians living there anyway.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the handful of Saudi believers, at extraordinary personal cost.
- Ask God to bless migrant workers worshipping quietly in homes and compounds.
- Pray for Arabic media and internet ministry reaching Saudi homes.
- Pray for the millions who visit Mecca each year seeking God.
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frontier · approximately 0.05% Christian
Pray for Somalia
Among the very hardest places on earth to follow Jesus.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the very small number of Somali believers, at genuine risk of death.
- Ask God to use the Somali diaspora — many now living in Canadian cities.
- Pray for Somali Scripture and radio reaching homes no worker can enter.
- Pray for peace after more than thirty years of conflict.
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reached · approximately 80% Christian
Pray for South Africa
A deeply Christian nation still healing from apartheid, with unreached communities inside its own cities.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for South African churches sending workers across Africa.
- Pray for reconciliation and justice where apartheid's wounds remain.
- Ask God to reach Indian-origin Hindu and Muslim neighbours in Durban and beyond.
- Pray for a church that disciples deeply rather than simply gathers crowds.
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reached · approximately 29% Christian
Pray for South Korea
A century ago it had almost no church. Today it sends more missionaries than almost any nation on earth.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for the Korean church's prayer, and for the thousands it has sent.
- Pray for Korean workers serving in dangerous and restricted nations.
- Ask God to renew a younger Korean generation drifting from the church.
- Pray for Korean believers carrying a burden for North Korea.
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unreached · approximately 5% Christian
Pray for Sudan
The world's largest displacement crisis, in a nation where believers had only just won new freedoms.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for an end to the war in Sudan.
- Pray for millions displaced and facing famine.
- Ask God to protect believers in the Nuba Mountains and Khartoum.
- Pray for the Gospel among Sudan's many unreached Muslim peoples.
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unreached · approximately 2.5% Christian
Pray for Syria
One of the oldest Christian lands on earth, where the church has shrunk to a fraction of its size in a single generation.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the protection of Syrian Christians in a time of great uncertainty.
- Pray for Syrians in exile who are meeting Jesus far from home.
- Ask God for a just peace that protects every community.
- Pray for churches serving the hungry and displaced across the country.
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unreached · approximately 1.2% Christian
Pray for Thailand
Two hundred years of missionary work and still around one percent Christian.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the Central Thai — a large people almost untouched after two centuries.
- Ask God for Thai believers who can follow Jesus without feeling less Thai.
- Pray for villages and districts with no church at all.
- Pray for those trapped in Thailand's trafficking and sex industry.
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frontier · approximately 0.2% Christian
Pray for Türkiye
The land of the seven churches of Revelation now has perhaps ten thousand Turkish believers.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for the small Turkish church in the land where the New Testament was written.
- Ask God to raise Turkish pastors as foreign workers are deported.
- Pray for Kurdish communities in the south-east with almost no witness.
- Pray for millions of refugees in Türkiye, many hearing the Gospel there.
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less-reached · approximately 85% Christian
Pray for Ukraine
Once the Bible belt of the Soviet Union — now a church serving a nation at war.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for peace and justice in Ukraine.
- Pray for believers and pastors in occupied territories.
- Ask God to comfort the grieving and heal the traumatised through His church.
- Pray for Crimean Tatars and other unreached minorities to hear the Gospel.
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less-reached · approximately 46% Christian
Pray for United Kingdom
The nation that sent missionaries to the world is now one of the fields.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Britain — a nation that sent the Gospel and now needs it again.
- Thank God for African, Caribbean and Asian congregations reviving British cities.
- Ask God to reach a generation with no church background at all.
- Pray for South Asian and Middle Eastern communities in British cities.
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reached · approximately 62% Christian
Pray for United States
The largest Christian population and the largest missionary-sending nation on earth — and the nations now live on its own streets.
Prayer prompts
- Thank God for generations of American believers who carried the Gospel to the nations.
- Pray for young adults to find a faith that is owned rather than inherited.
- Ask God to open churches' eyes to the unreached peoples now living in their own cities.
- Pray for a church known more for the love of Jesus than for its politics.
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unreached · approximately 1% Christian
Pray for Uzbekistan
The old Silk Road once carried the Gospel across Central Asia. It is being carried again.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Uzbek believers meeting in homes under registration laws.
- Thank God for Scripture in Uzbek and for a genuinely indigenous church.
- Ask God to open the door for legal registration and public worship.
- Pray for the Karakalpak people — one of Central Asia's least-reached groups.
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less-reached · approximately 8% Christian
Pray for Vietnam
A communist state where one of Asia's great movements to Christ has grown among a persecuted minority.
Prayer prompts
- Praise God for the Hmong movement to Christ.
- Pray for minority believers facing pressure to renounce their faith.
- Ask God to reach rural Vietnamese communities with little access to the Gospel.
- Pray for wisdom for churches navigating registration and state control.
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frontier · approximately 0.1% Christian
Pray for Yemen
The world's worst humanitarian crisis, and one of its least-reached nations.
Prayer prompts
- Pray for Yemenis facing hunger, disease and displacement.
- Ask God to protect the small number of Yemeni believers.
- Pray for relief and medical workers serving at real risk.
- Pray for an end to a war the world has largely stopped watching.
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