Today We Join With Operation World in Praying for

Romania

Europe

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Geography

Area: 238,391 sq km
Balkan state on the lower Danube River, a mix of mountains, hills and plains.
Population: 21,190,154    Annual Growth: -0.41%
Capital: Bucharest
Urbanites: 54.6%
HDI Rank: 63 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 29 (21% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Romanian    Languages: 23All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	20,545,973	96.96	-0.2
Evangelicals	1,149,647	5.4	2.3

Answer to Prayer

Romania has a large and growing evangelical population, Europe’s fourth largest. This is despite an overall decline in population. In fact, evangelicals are the only growing major religious group. Romania is considered one of the more spiritually receptive European nations.

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Challenge for Prayer

A legacy of brokenness endures from the days of Ceausescu’s regime, a moral vacuum being filled with every kind of social evil. Substance abuse, prostitution, pornography, human trafficking and challenges to child welfare are widespread. Romania has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, with three or more abortions for every child born. Poverty is still common, with widespread unemployment and economic instability, caused to a large degree by rampant and entrenched corruption. Divisions in government reduce its effectiveness; major strides forward are needed in its legal, education and health care systems as well as police and local administrations. Pray for leadership that has the wisdom to chart the right path and the integrity to implement the right policies.
     For an additional 12 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.