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Key groups for outreach. Pray for these: The Basques are an ancient and proud people without a single Euskera-speaking Protestant church. The Basque ETA movement terrorizes and polarizes society in the Basque region. There are fewer than 100 evangelical churches in the four provinces where Basques live (Guipuzcoa, Vizcaya, Alava and Navarra) and all of […]

Ceuta and Melilla (70,000 each) are two city enclaves on Morocco’s north coast. Approximately half of the population are Muslim, half speaking Cherja, a Berber language. There are four evangelical churches in Ceuta and seven in Melilla. Betel, REMAR and The Bible Society have ministries in both enclaves. Pray for these cities to be effective […]

The Canary Islands form an archipelago of seven larger islands off Africa’s northwest coast. Among the two million inhabitants, at least 10,000 are evangelical – most live on the two larger islands and over half belong to Assemblies of God. Evangelicals may be stronger in the Canaries than in most of Spain; with strong churches […]

Stability in Africa’s most failed state remains depressingly elusive. Somalia now has a parliament and recognized national leaders after 20 years without an effective central government. But the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab (linked to Al-Qaeda) still controls much of southern and central Somalia, and continues to hold influence in rural areas. Although it no longer […]

The vast majority of Seychellois claim to be Christian, but evidence of true spiritual transformation seems outweighed by superstition and nominalism. Gris-gris, a voodoo-like African spiritism based on black magic and herbalism, permeates the lives of Christians. Despite the disapproval of religious leaders, most Seychellois remain happy to mix religion into this dangerous cocktail. Pray […]

The majority of the population are Catholic, but practice is usually mixed with deep-seated African spiritist beliefs. Appeasing spirits and ancestors is often of greater importance than honouring God. Pray for the Holy Spirit to move through the Catholic Church, bringing renewal. Pray for the sovereignty of Jesus to be clearly demonstrated amid syncretized Catholicism […]

Rwanda made great progress since the tragic events of 1994, when Hutu extremists seized power and began the genocide of the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates. 800,000 perished in 100 days. Political stability since 2000 allows Rwandans a chance to rebuild. Rwanda’s economy is now one of the fastest growing in Africa. Females make up […]

Rwanda’s longer-term future must move forward from its haunted past in a healthy way. A development programme called Vision 2020 intended to transform Rwanda’s economy, infrastructure and values into that of a middle income country. Indeed, Rwanda’s progress in the last 20 years is the envy of many other African nations. Now, Vision 2050 is […]

Religious groups for prayer: The Catholic Church, which lost much credibility by failing to adequately oppose evil and speak against the ethnic hatred that led to the massacres. Many righteous Catholics, including priests and nuns, laid down their lives to protect others. But others failed to intervene or even connived with the perpetrators. As a […]

Although Catholicism is the professed religion of 80% of the population, many Catholics are either very nominal, highly syncretized or both. The Malabar religion – a synthesis of Hinduism and African witchcraft – is practiced by many. Religious beliefs have mixed and blended as much as the Creole people have, such that “Creole Christianity” incorporates […]