Gary Miller Ministry

Mar 18: Brazil

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Brazil

Federative Republic of Brazil

Latin America

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Geography

Area: 8,511,965 sq km
One-half of the land surface and population of South America. The world’s fifth largest country in both area and population.
Population: 195,423,252    Annual Growth: 0.99%
Capital: Brasilia
Urbanites: 86.5%
HDI Rank: 75 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 315 (18% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Portuguese    Languages:193 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	178,616,852	91.40	1.1
Evangelicals	51,334,091	26.3	1.7

Prayercast

Answer to Prayer

The sustained increase of evangélicos (from 2 million in 1960 to 512 million in 2010) makes Brazil one of the largest evangelical populations in the world. While not without controversy, their steady forward march is changing the makeup of Brazil’s population and orientation.
     For an additional 3 Answers to Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

Challenge for Prayer

Evangelical impact on society has until now been negligible. But with rapid growth comes increased power and responsibility. Pray for:
a) Socio-political influence. No longer a tiny, marginalized group, evangelicals now hold nearly as much clout as the Catholic Church. Churches are beginning to wield this strategically, both as a voting bloc and in lobbying the government on various issues. Pray for assertive holiness that is combined with gracious humility in presenting the face of the Church to the nation.
b) Transformational ministry is greatly needed in a nation ravaged by inequality, injustice, crime, immorality and HIV/AIDS. While mainline churches have a long association with compassionate works, evangelicals have done far too little to effect transformation. Only 12% of churches have any kind of social programme, and most of those are very limited in scope. Once evangelicals address these challenges on a massive scale, then they can consider themselves to truly be “good news people”.
     For an additional 11 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

More Information

The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Brazil.