Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Feb 15: Angola

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Area: 1,246,700 sq km
Large coastal state on the South Atlantic coast. Cabinda is an oil-rich coastal enclave to the north of the Congo River.
Population: 18,992,707 Annual Growth: 2.71%
Capital: Luanda
Urbanites: 58.5%
HDI Rank: 143 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 60 (3% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Portuguese Languages: 41All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	17,870,238	94.09	3.0
Evangelicals	4,277,143	22.5	4.4

Answer to Prayer

The remarkable growth of biblical Christianityamid war and poverty. Evangelicals quadrupled from 1990 to 2010, despite the extremely difficult conditions.
For an additional Answer to Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

Challenge for Prayer

Luanda and other major cities attracted the displaced but had no capacity to shelter them properly, so squalid squatter camps rapidly sprung up. A large proportion of the rural population fled to urban areas due to food shortages and lack of security. The government is accused of failing to care for these unwilling refugees. There are large numbers of orphaned and abandoned children; many are falsely accused of witchcraft by relatives as a pretext for getting rid of them. Others are forced or sold into prostitution to feed themselves. Pray for those working with the urban poor and the children at risk.
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 Angola.

Jesus is the Answer

And he will give you another comforting Counselor...

John 14:12-18 (Complete Jewish Bible)

12Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever trusts in me will also do the works I do! Indeed, he will do greater ones, because I am going to the Father.13In fact, whatever you ask for in my name, I will do; so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.14If you ask me for something in my name, I will do it.15"If you love me, you will keep my commands;16and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever.17The world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him. You know him, because he is staying with you and will be united with you.18I will not leave you orphans -- I am coming to you.

A prayer of thanks

Proverbs 15 (with text - press on more info.)

THE LORD IS MY ROCK

(Scripture Song) Psalm 18.3,46

Psalm 12 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 12 (New International Version)

Psalm 12

For the director of music. According to sheminith . A psalm of David. [a]

1 Help, LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
2 Everyone lies to his neighbor; their flattering lips speak with deception.

3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue

4 that says, "We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips [b] —who is our master?"

5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD. "I will protect them from those who malign them."

6 And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.

7 O LORD, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever.

8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.