Please Pray for People's Republic of Bangladesh Asia

Mar 02: Bangladesh

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Bangladesh

People's Republic of Bangladesh

Asia

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Geography

Area: 143,998 sq km
Occupying the delta and floodplains of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers, with high rainfall and frequent flooding.
Population: 164,425,491    Annual Growth: 1.43%
Capital: Dhaka
Urbanites: 28.1%
HDI Rank: 146 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 423 (88% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Bengla; English also used    Languages: 46 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Muslim

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	1,085,208	0.66	3.1
Evangelicals	633,467	0.4	3.6
Muslim	146,355,130	89.01

Answer to Prayer

Progress in the fight against poverty has been made. The thousands of NGOs operating contributed immeasurably to this. Bangladesh is now the furthest along of all South Asian nations toward meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals for 2015 (focused on poverty reduction, education, etc). Micro-credit has been the flagship strategy for this progress.
     For an additional Answer to Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

Challenge for Prayer

Religious discrimination and tension is rising. Islamists, while a small minority, exert increasing pressure for governance by shari’a principles. Minority groups, even Muslim ones, find themselves vulnerable. Christians, Buddhists and especially Hindus suffer as persecution intensifies, occasionally to the point of destruction of property and sometimes even death. Forced reconversion to Islam is an increasing threat. Since independence, the percent of the population comprising minority sections of society has been reduced to half. Pray for binding of the powers of darkness operating in religious, social and ethnic realms. Pray also that the constitutional freedom allowing all to practise and propagate their own religions might be maintained.
     For an additional 12 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 Bangladesh.