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The unreached peoples of Asia can be grouped by Affinity Blocs of language, ethnicity, culture, geography, and history. The salient needs of these blocs are briefly outlined here. The Arab World. Population in Asia:153 million with 187 peoples. The majority of the 12 Arab countries have either shrinking churches due to emigration or small Christian […]

South Asia. Decline and nominalism go hand in hand in several areas. For decades, the Christian population in Sri Lanka has steadily reduced as a percentage of the national total. The same problem exists among the established, traditional churches of India and Pakistan. Emigration and a lack of evangelistic vision contribute significantly to this. Pray […]

Persecution remains present in all countries of South Asia, although location, social context and time frame all factor into the intensity thereof. Christians are on the receiving end of persecution – mostly from Hindus in India and Nepal, from Muslims in Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives and even from Buddhists in Sri Lanka. Some of […]

South Asia. Decline and nominalism go hand in hand in several areas. For decades, the Christian population in Sri Lanka has steadily reduced as a percentage of the national total. The same problem exists among the established, traditional churches of India and Pakistan. Emigration and a lack of evangelistic vision contribute significantly to this. Pray […]

The revolution in information technology cannot but deeply affect Asia. Some countries will benefit from the large and well-educated workforce that specializes in IT – India and China are foremost among these. East Asia leads the world in technological innovation on many levels. But a more profound effect will be from rapidly spreading information and […]

The severity of the AIDS pandemic is intensifying in certain regions. Two major infection points are Mumbai, India, and Bangkok, Thailand, where the flourishing sex industry helps spread the scourge to poorer, surrounding lands. India has more cases of HIV than any other nation. More recently, relaxed morals and greater mobility in China make it […]

Ecological disasters loom on the horizon, largely because of rapid industrialization, unsustainable growth in energy consumption and pollution. There is a litany of tragedies for Asia: drying of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, leaving a poisonous desert; desertification in China and Mongolia; rapid destruction of tropical forests in Southeast Asia and Indonesia; the threatened […]

The resurgence of non-Christian world religions increasingly influences politics, restricts religious freedom, heightens inter-ethnic divisions and affects Christian outreach and strategy. Islam is a faith undergoing several crises. It remains robust and growing at its fringes in Africa, Europe and parts of Asia, while closer to home, cracks in the facade reveal deeper fault lines […]

Intractable divisions within and between nations threaten stability and peace in many places. Some of these are international in nature, such as India-Pakistan, North and South Korea, Israel-Palestine-Lebanon. Others involve active secessionist or rebel movements within nations: India (Kashmir), China (Tibet and Xinjiang), Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Georgia and the Philippines. In a number of […]

Trafficking is a major means of illegal and illicit income. Drug trafficking remains the most well known and violent of these trades. There are two main hubs of heroin production: Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle. Human trafficking, usually for manual labour or the sex trade, has accelerated rapidly in the last few years. It particularly […]