AFWIS Joins Operation World in Prayer for the Gabonese Republic - Africa

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May 27: Gabon

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Gabon

Gabonese Republic

Africa

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Geography

Area: 267,667 sq km
Coastal, Central African state on the equator, two-thirds being dense tropical rainforest and 10% being nature reserves.
Population: 1,501,266    Annual Growth: 1.86%
Capital: Libreville
Urbanites: 86%
HDI Rank: 103 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 49 (8% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: French    Languages: 43 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	1,191,255	79.35	1.4
Evangelicals	190,552	12.7	2.8

Answer to Prayer

Peoples of the interior – long unreached and even previously out of bounds for evangelical missionaries – are opening to the gospel. Research in the late 1990s identified the unengaged and least-reached peoples, and Christians are beginning to plant churches among them. Included in these are the Baka people, Gabon’s earliest inhabitants, who are proving quite responsive to outreach.
     For an additional Answer to Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

Challenge for Prayer

Spiritist beliefs and practices (such as Bwiti syncretism) are widely observed and deeply pervasive in much of Catholicism, other Christian groups and Islam. This continues to cause many to fall back on fetishes, hallucinogenic drugs, ancestral spirits and dependence on the medicine men who have held them in bondage for generations. Secret societies are common; many government elite, police officers and members of the army participate in often-bloody nighttime rituals including witchcraft and black magic. Christians who refuse to participate in these “harmless clubs” can be refused academic or professional advancement.
     For an additional 7 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 Gabon.