Pray by Region
China: Church facial recognition cameras
The government wanted to install facial recognition cameras in Pastor Xiang En’s church sanctuary. When he refused they did it anyway and gathered the private data of church members so that they could…
Worldwide: inner city churches
A recent Lausanne Movement asked, ‘What can we do to accelerate the impact of Christianity in our cities?’ For the first time in history, there are more people in cities than in the…
Worldwide: life getting harder for Christians
Open Doors CEO Henrietta Blyth has written, ‘Around the world, life is getting harder, not easier, for Christians. In India we see rising levels of violence against believers – especially pastors’ wives and…
Worldwide: abortion largest cause of death
Over 42 million abortions took place globally in 2019, according to the tracking service Worldometers. Once again abortion was the single largest cause of death across the planet, causing significantly more than half…
Editorial: GO 2020 - Invitation to the Worldwide Prayer Movement and Church
‘Calling the whole Body of Christ to prayer and action for a lost world ‘ Christians around the world soon will celebrate once again the awesome light of Christ that has penetrated and…
School of Prayer for the Nations
This past March a group of 15 people gathered to pray together for seven days on the outskirts of London, England. Nothing remarkable about such small beginnings, and still too early to know…
619 new Bible translation projects in 2019
Wycliffe Associates is advancing Bible translation and has received requests to launch 619 translation projects worldwide, including groups in DRC, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Nigeria. ‘When they hear that the entire New…
Gender-based violence against Christians
Afghanistan, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, and Somalia are the five worst places for women to live, according to the 2019 World Watch List of ‘50 most difficult places to be a Christian’. The…
Widespread persecution of journalists
The risks journalists take when reporting on corruption continue. Ahmed Hussein-Suale, an undercover journalist working on an investigation with the BBC about corruption in Ghana’s football leagues, was shot and killed after a…
Global inequality is being ignored
An Oxfam report, released to coincide with the International Economic Forum at Davos, reveals that the world’s 26 richest people own as much as half the planet’s population. Addressing such large disparities may…
