Key Stats
Category | Statistic |
---|---|
Continent: | Europe |
Capital: | Bucharest |
Population: | 19,127,772 |
% Urban: | 54.3 % |
Population Under 15 Yrs: | 15.6 % |
Official Language: | Romanian |
Languages: | 23 |
Literacy Rate: | 99 % |
HDI Ranking: | 49 / 189 |
% Christian: | 97 % |
% Evangelical: | 5.4 % |
Largest Religion: | Christian |
% Largest Religion: | 97 % |
People Groups: | 32 |
Least Reached People Groups: | 7 |
% Unevangelized: | 0 % |
Romania
A legacy of brokenness endures from the days of Ceausescu’s regime. Every kind of social evil came to fill the moral space left after Communism ended. People struggle with substance abuse, prostitution, human trafficking, and abuse of children. Deep corruption led to economic instability and widespread unemployment. Membership in the European Union has helped push Romania further along the path of economic progress and stability. Pray for leadership that has wisdom to follow the right path, and integrity to establish right policies.
Romania
Romania is one of the world’s most Christian nations by percentage, but it is difficult to see this in society. The atheistic worldview of Communism persists. Weak faith, hypocrisy, and slander of other denominations cause problems for all Christian groups. This does not glorify Christ, and does not build up the Church. Church members and even clergy mix faith with folk religious practices or the occult. Churches neglect many poor people. Pray for a breakthrough of love, holiness, discipleship, and prayer in all denominations.
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Content taken or adapted from Operation World, 7th Edition (2010) and Pray for the World (2015). Both books are published by InterVarsity Press. All rights reserved.