Prayer Guides
Prayer Guides
Throughout the New Testament, we see Christ's call for a heroic love of neighbor. This heroic love is rooted in action and prayer. Christians should pray for any and all who face persecution because of belief or background. To do this well, we must first understand who our neighbors are, where they come from, and the context in which they are suffering.
We have created prayer guides to help. These guides will focus on countries where persecution remains prevalent. Our hope is that they will not only help guide your prayers but also facilitate discussion with fellow believers -- friends, family, and church small groups.
*For Nov. 1 Day of Prayer for All the Persecuted, find our short country-specific prayers for 4 of these countries, HERE.
With over a billion people and the atheistic Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in power, many people of faith---including Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and Chinese Christians---are unable to practice their faith freely.
Watch our interview with Jewher Ilham, a Uyghur human rights advocate, HERE, and pray for her, her father, and her community.
Cuba's government continues to use surveillance, harassment, and arbitrary detentions against people of all faiths, even forcing many religious leaders into exile. With tight regulations on all religious activities, Cubans across the island are unable to worship without fear.
Though a place of incredible diversity and beauty, Pakistan contains rampant human rights violations impacting people of all faiths. With government repression and terrorist attacks victimizing religious minorities and Muslims alike, it remains a country full of fear and suffering.
In a turbulent corner of Africa sits one of the poorest and most repressive countries in the world -- Eritrea. With an authoritarian government in control since the early 1990s, Eritreans of various faith backgrounds face restrictions, abuse, and imprisonment for what they believe.
Alarming levels of religious harassment and persecution are occurring across India through discriminatory laws, hateful rhetoric against non-Hindus, and organized attacks generated online. And under its current leadership, communal violence targeting minority faith groups is increasingly widespread.
Though it made significant progress in the area of religious freedom from 2000-2019, Vietnam's authoritarian governance and state control over social activities show worrying signs of regression and an increase in documented violations and abuse against people of various faith backgrounds, especially in rural areas.
Ten years since ISIS swept through northern Iraq seeking to exterminate Yazidis, Christians, and even Shia Muslims who disagreed with their ideology, Iraqis of various faiths still face extreme persecution through the use of anti-conversion laws, mass displacements due to violence, and the criminalization--to the point of death--of certain religious practices.
Severe persecution and violence confronts Christians and Muslims across Nigeria— today one of the most dangerous countries in the world for believers. As ethnic, religious, and extremist dynamics fuel attacks, displacement, and injustice primarily in the Northern states, an urgent need persists for believers to intercede for victims, communities, and government leadership as Nigerians suffer.
