Please Pray for Nepal
SGWM is committing the month of February in praying for Nepal.
The land-locked nation of Nepal between China and India was, until 2006, the world’s only officially Hindu nation, with 86 percent of the population being Hindu and only 0.6 percent Christian. Today, Christians make up 2.8 percent of the population while Hindus account for 75 percent. People who convert from Hinduism to another religion may be socially ostracized, and proselytizing is officially prohibited.
Government: The new Interim government established in 2007 is officially secular and protects the right to practice one’s religion. The Interim Constitution denies the right to proselytize.
A strong Buddhist population in Nepal recently rose against a group of Christians and drove them out of their village with their pastor.
According to the Voice of the Martyrs, Canada, the Nepali pastor was accused of bringing a foreign religion into the village and teaching ideals that were offensive to society.
Attackers also accused Christians of bribing and coercing other villagers into converting, an act frowned upon by society.
While the anti-conversion laws are not officially in effect in Nepal, anti-conversion law language has been used by the Nepali government in their ongoing process of drafting a constitution.
A worker with the Voice of the Martyrs helped the believers resettle in another village.
Please join us in praying:
1. Please pray for lasting peace for Nepal—and for its people who have suffered so much to find true healing and redemption in Christ.
2. Please pray that the missionaries in Nepal will be filled with joy, Christ’s love and physical stamina as they diligently take His Good News to their people. Pray they will encounter receptive hearts, and pray for new believers to be strengthened daily in their faith.
3. Pray for believers in Nepal who are facing hardships for the sake of Christ.
4. Pray that the passion these believers have for Christ will be the light that draws others to Jesus (Matthew 5:14-16).
5. Pray that Christians will practice their faith with courage.
6. Please pray that hostility against Christians in Nepal will cease and that believers will be allowed to live and worship freely. Pray that despite the lack of freedom to share the hope of faith in Christ, the Lord will give Christians opportunities to evangelize.
‘Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’ Isaiah 41:10
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