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Evangelicals are growing despite severe persecution. Being officially banned, these groups now operate in underground networks based in homes. Around 20 or more networks are known, but numbers are impossible to ascertain. Pray for these issues: Imprisonment and torture are reality. Key evangelical leaders were imprisoned following the ban on their churches. Since then, arrests […]

Evangelicals are growing despite severe persecution. Being officially banned, these groups now operate in underground networks based in homes. Around 20 or more networks are known, but numbers are impossible to ascertain. Pray for these issues: Imprisonment and torture are reality. Key evangelical leaders were imprisoned following the ban on their churches. Since then, arrests […]

Missionaries have increased in number, including growing numbers from West and Central Africa, but they need wisdom in the convoluted socio-political situation. Several delicate and difficult situations in relating to indigenous leadership have occurred in recent years. Pray for grace and humility on the part of both expats and nationals. The main agencies are: EqGuiMsn, […]

The vast majority are Roman Catholic, the highest percentage of any African nation. But beneath the surface of the imposed colonial religion lies the reality that animistic beliefs and practices were never abandoned. Pray that the 85% who claim Christianity – without having been born again – might hear and respond to the true gospel […]

Equatorial Guinea is an unusual country in many ways. It has had the same President since 1979, although he is perhaps better described as wealthy despot, suppressing any political opposition. It is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa. It became oil-rich, although the quality of life for most of the population was not transformed. Most […]

The Dominican Republic has suffered 500 years of turmoil. First, one million indigenous Arawak Taino people died from foreign diseases and Spanish rule. Sugar cane plantation owners later imported African slaves. Both European colonial powers and later Dominican governments exploited the land and people. Pray for economic and political justice to visit this nation that […]

Media ministry: PEMA, the film studio for the Association of Evangelicals in Africa, based in Abidjan, produces culturally relevant programmes on video for transmission by national television stations across West Africa. Topics such as HIV/AIDS, family life and other relevant social issues get a sound biblical treatment in these programmes. Christian music writing and recording […]

Social challenges for prayer: Abidjan’s exploding population has doubled in the last 15 years to five million in the metropolitan area, making it the third largest city in the Francophone world. It is the strategic key for evangelization of Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso. All people groups of these latter two lands have a […]

Animism is still strong in Côte d’Ivoire, despite apparent numerical decline. Although evangelical congregations outnumber sacred fetish groves for the first time in the nation’s history, animism’s power remains unbroken and penetrates deep into the worldview and practices of both Christians and Muslims. Many believers are affected by the power of African traditional religion, especially […]

Social challenges for prayer: Abidjan’s exploding population has doubled in the last 15 years to five million in the metropolitan area, making it the third largest city in the Francophone world. It is the strategic key for evangelization of Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso. All people groups of these latter two lands have a […]