Prayer that carries the world

A Global Prayer Atlas.

Learn one nation. Carry its people before God. Pray with focus for seven days—and invite someone to join you.

Choose a nation to carry.

Explore nation context and focused prompts for informed, consistent Christian prayer.

frontier · approximately 0.02% Christian

Pray for Afghanistan

Afghanistan remains one of the most challenging mission fields in the world. With less than 0.1% Christian, it is a frontier nation in need of sustained prayer, compassionate service, and Gospel hope.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Afghan believers meeting in secret — for courage, for protection, and for at least one other believer they can trust.
  • Ask God to sustain families where one member has come to Christ and the rest have not.
  • Pray for Afghan refugees across Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and Europe, where the Gospel reaches them freely.
  • Pray for the Pashtun and Tajik peoples — millions who have never heard the name of Jesus explained even once.

Full Afghanistan profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 17% Christian

Pray for Albania

Albania, once the world's first officially atheist state, is now experiencing a renewed openness to faith. The Gospel continues to take root in this Balkan nation.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for a church that exists where atheism was once the law.
  • Pray for young Albanian leaders to stay, or to plant churches among Albanians abroad.
  • Ask God to move among Albania's Muslim majority, where identity is often cultural rather than devout.
  • Pray for churches in rural towns where believers may number only a handful.

Full Albania profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 2% Christian

Pray for Algeria

Algeria has seen significant Christian witness grow within a predominantly Muslim context. Believers continue to need prayer for mature discipleship, courage, and gracious relationships.

Prayer prompts

  • Praise God for the Kabyle movement — one of the clearest answers to a century of prayer for North Africa.
  • Pray for churches ordered closed to be allowed to reopen, and for believers facing fines and court dates.
  • Ask God to carry the movement beyond the Kabyle into Arabized Algeria.
  • Pray for first-generation believers discipling parents and children at the same time.

Full Algeria profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 0.5% Christian

Pray for Bangladesh

One of the most densely populated nations on earth, and one of the least reached.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Bengali Muslim-background believers meeting quietly in homes.
  • Ask God for Bangladeshi leaders able to disciple in Bengali, in Bengali culture.
  • Pray for the church's care of neighbours through floods, cyclones and displacement.
  • Pray for the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar — a people almost entirely without Gospel access.

Full Bangladesh profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 85% Christian

Pray for Brazil

A mission field that became one of the world's great missionary-sending nations.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for a nation that received the Gospel and now carries it to others.
  • Pray for depth — for discipleship that outlasts an emotional decision.
  • Ask God to protect Brazilian workers serving in difficult and dangerous places.
  • Pray for Amazonian indigenous peoples still without Scripture in their language.

Full Brazil profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 53% Christian

Pray for Canada

Home ground for this movement — and one of the fastest-secularising nations in the West.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the twelve Love on Cities outreach groups meeting weekly across Canada.
  • Ask God to wake the Canadian church from comfort into ordinary, weekly obedience.
  • Pray for newcomers from closed nations — that the first Christian they meet would be worth knowing.
  • Pray for Indigenous communities, and for reconciliation that is more than words.

Full Canada profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 7% Christian

Pray for China

Perhaps the largest church growth in history happened where it was forbidden.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for what He did in China when no one could see it.
  • Pray for house-church leaders under surveillance and for pastors who have been detained.
  • Ask God to protect the discipleship of children where teaching them is restricted.
  • Pray for China's Hui Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists — large peoples still almost entirely unreached.

Full China profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 10% Christian

Pray for Egypt

The largest Christian community in the Middle East has been here since the first century.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for a church that has endured in Egypt for nearly two thousand years.
  • Pray for Coptic and evangelical believers facing discrimination and, at times, violence.
  • Ask God to bless Egypt's Christians with favour among their Muslim neighbours.
  • Pray for Egyptian workers carrying the Gospel across the wider Arab world.

Full Egypt profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 65% Christian

Pray for Ethiopia

One of the oldest Christian nations on earth is also one of the fastest-growing.

Prayer prompts

  • Praise God for a church that has stood in Ethiopia for over 1,600 years.
  • Pray for peace and reconciliation across ethnic lines, and for the church to lead it.
  • Ask God to bless Ethiopian workers reaching Somali and Afar peoples.
  • Pray for displaced families and for churches caring for them.

Full Ethiopia profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 48% Christian

Pray for France

A nation full of cathedrals where roughly one person in a hundred is an evangelical believer.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for French towns with no evangelical church of any kind.
  • Ask God to bless African and Caribbean congregations sending the Gospel back into France.
  • Pray for young French believers to stay and plant rather than leave.
  • Pray for North African immigrant communities — reachable in Paris as they are not in Algiers.

Full France profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 2.4% Christian

Pray for India

No nation on earth holds more people who have never heard of Jesus.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the more than two thousand unreached peoples of India — most have no church at all.
  • Ask God to protect Indian believers facing anti-conversion laws and violence.
  • Pray for house-church movements multiplying across the Hindi belt.
  • Pray for Dalit communities, where the Gospel has often been most welcome.

Full India profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 10% Christian

Pray for Indonesia

The world's largest Muslim nation also holds one of Asia's largest churches.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the Sundanese — around forty million people with very few known believers.
  • Ask God to protect churches in regions where building permits are refused or withdrawn.
  • Pray for Indonesian believers crossing island and ethnic lines with the Gospel.
  • Pray for unity between Indonesia's many Christian traditions.

Full Indonesia profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 0.5% Christian

Pray for Iran

Officially one of the most closed nations on earth — and home to one of the fastest-growing churches in the world.

Prayer prompts

  • Praise God for what He is doing in Iran against every human expectation.
  • Pray for imprisoned believers and for the families left behind.
  • Ask God to keep multiplying house churches faster than they can be shut down.
  • Pray for Iranians meeting Christ through dreams — a reported pattern too common to dismiss.

Full Iran profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 0.4% Christian

Pray for Iraq

A church that has been here since the first centuries has shrunk by roughly ninety percent in one generation.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the small Christian remnant of Iraq — that it would not disappear.
  • Ask God to bless families rebuilding on the Nineveh Plain.
  • Pray for Kurdish and Arab believers coming to Christ in a wounded land.
  • Pray for forgiveness where memory of atrocity is still fresh.

Full Iraq profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 1.5% Christian

Pray for Japan

The largest unreached nation in the developed world.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Japan — free, wealthy, and still barely reached after 150 years.
  • Ask God to raise young Japanese pastors for churches whose leaders are retiring.
  • Pray for believers carrying the Gospel to family members who see it as betrayal.
  • Pray against the despair and isolation behind Japan's suicide rate.

Full Japan profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 85% Christian

Pray for Kenya

One of Africa's great sending bases, with unreached peoples inside its own borders.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for a Kenyan church that trains and sends across East Africa.
  • Pray for Christian love toward Somali neighbours after years of violence.
  • Ask God for depth where Christian identity is assumed rather than owned.
  • Pray for churches in the arid north, where believers are few and far apart.

Full Kenya profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 0.1% Christian

Pray for Morocco

A quietly growing Moroccan church exists where the law says it cannot.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Moroccan believers meeting in homes with no legal protection.
  • Thank God for the Gospel in Darija — the language of the heart, not the mosque.
  • Ask God to sustain converts rejected by their families.
  • Pray for Berber communities in the Atlas Mountains with no known believers.

Full Morocco profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 2.5% Christian

Pray for Nepal

From a handful of believers in 1950 to hundreds of thousands today.

Prayer prompts

  • Praise God for a church that grew from nothing within living memory.
  • Pray about anti-conversion laws that put believers at legal risk again.
  • Ask God for sound teaching to keep pace with rapid growth.
  • Pray for Himalayan Buddhist communities where there is still no church.

Full Nepal profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 46% Christian

Pray for Nigeria

Africa's largest church, and one of the most dangerous places on earth to belong to it.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Christians in northern and middle-belt Nigeria facing violence.
  • Ask God to comfort families who have lost members and homes.
  • Pray for Nigerian believers reaching Hausa and Fulani neighbours in love, not retaliation.
  • Pray for depth and integrity in a church large enough to shape a nation.

Full Nigeria profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 1.5% Christian

Pray for North Korea

Pyongyang was once called the Jerusalem of the East.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for North Korean believers whose faith has been secret for three generations.
  • Ask God to sustain Christians in the labour camps.
  • Pray for North Korean refugees in China, often reached by Korean-Chinese churches.
  • Pray that Pyongyang would again be a city known for prayer.

Full North Korea profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 1.8% Christian

Pray for Pakistan

A Christian minority of several million, most of them poor, most of them faithful.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Pakistani Christians facing blasphemy accusations.
  • Ask God to protect Christian girls at risk of abduction and forced marriage.
  • Pray for dignity and opportunity for families trapped in sanitation work.
  • Pray for Pashtun, Sindhi and Baloch peoples with almost no Gospel witness.

Full Pakistan profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 90% Christian

Pray for Philippines

Ten million Filipinos live abroad — and many of them carry the Gospel with them.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for Filipino believers witnessing in nations closed to missionaries.
  • Pray for overseas workers separated from their families for years.
  • Ask God for peace and Gospel witness among the Moro peoples of Mindanao.
  • Pray for depth of discipleship in a nation where nearly everyone claims Christ.

Full Philippines profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 14% Christian

Pray for Qatar

Qatar, a nation known for its rapid development, holds a significant spiritual landscape. While predominantly Islamic, a vibrant Christian community thrives within its borders.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for open doors for the Gospel among Qatari nationals.
  • Ask God to strengthen migrant believers worshipping far from home.
  • Pray for justice and dignity for exploited migrant workers.
  • Pray for Qatari families to encounter Christ through the believers already among them.

Full Qatar profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 92% Christian

Pray for Romania

Romania holds a rich spiritual tapestry woven with centuries of Christian heritage. With approximately 99% identifying as Christian, it stands as one of the most Christianized countries.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for churches to disciple a generation shaped by emigration.
  • Ask God to bless growing Roma churches and Roma-led leadership.
  • Pray for renewed courage in a church that once paid dearly for its faith.
  • Pray for Romanian workers serving across Eastern Europe.

Full Romania profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 71% Christian

Pray for Russia

Russia presents a unique spiritual landscape. The Russian Orthodox Church has long been central to national identity, experiencing a significant resurgence since the Soviet era.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for spiritual awakening beyond cultural Christianity.
  • Ask God to sustain believers ministering in restrictive conditions.
  • Pray for the Tatar, Chechen and Caucasus peoples — unreached inside a 'Christian' nation.
  • Pray for Bible translation into Russia's minority languages.

Full Russia profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 93% Christian

Pray for Rwanda

Rwanda, often called the Land of a Thousand Hills, is a nation with a vibrant and complex spiritual landscape. Christianity is deeply woven into the fabric of Rwandan society.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Gospel-shaped reconciliation, integrity, and unity across churches and communities.
  • Ask God to form the next generation into resilient disciples who carry hope into East Africa.
  • Pray for survivors still carrying trauma, and for churches walking with them.
  • Pray that Rwandan Christianity would be converted, not merely inherited.

Full Rwanda profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 4% Christian

Pray for Saudi Arabia

No churches, no public worship — and roughly a million Christians living there anyway.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the handful of Saudi believers, at extraordinary personal cost.
  • Ask God to bless migrant workers worshipping quietly in homes and compounds.
  • Pray for Arabic media and internet ministry reaching Saudi homes.
  • Pray for the millions who visit Mecca each year seeking God.

Full Saudi Arabia profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 0.05% Christian

Pray for Somalia

Among the very hardest places on earth to follow Jesus.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the very small number of Somali believers, at genuine risk of death.
  • Ask God to use the Somali diaspora — many now living in Canadian cities.
  • Pray for Somali Scripture and radio reaching homes no worker can enter.
  • Pray for peace after more than thirty years of conflict.

Full Somalia profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

reached · approximately 29% Christian

Pray for South Korea

A century ago it had almost no church. Today it sends more missionaries than almost any nation on earth.

Prayer prompts

  • Thank God for the Korean church's prayer, and for the thousands it has sent.
  • Pray for Korean workers serving in dangerous and restricted nations.
  • Ask God to renew a younger Korean generation drifting from the church.
  • Pray for Korean believers carrying a burden for North Korea.

Full South Korea profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 1.2% Christian

Pray for Thailand

Two hundred years of missionary work and still around one percent Christian.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the Central Thai — a large people almost untouched after two centuries.
  • Ask God for Thai believers who can follow Jesus without feeling less Thai.
  • Pray for villages and districts with no church at all.
  • Pray for those trapped in Thailand's trafficking and sex industry.

Full Thailand profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 0.2% Christian

Pray for Türkiye

The land of the seven churches of Revelation now has perhaps ten thousand Turkish believers.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for the small Turkish church in the land where the New Testament was written.
  • Ask God to raise Turkish pastors as foreign workers are deported.
  • Pray for Kurdish communities in the south-east with almost no witness.
  • Pray for millions of refugees in Türkiye, many hearing the Gospel there.

Full Türkiye profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

less-reached · approximately 46% Christian

Pray for United Kingdom

The nation that sent missionaries to the world is now one of the fields.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Britain — a nation that sent the Gospel and now needs it again.
  • Thank God for African, Caribbean and Asian congregations reviving British cities.
  • Ask God to reach a generation with no church background at all.
  • Pray for South Asian and Middle Eastern communities in British cities.

Full United Kingdom profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

unreached · approximately 1% Christian

Pray for Uzbekistan

The old Silk Road once carried the Gospel across Central Asia. It is being carried again.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Uzbek believers meeting in homes under registration laws.
  • Thank God for Scripture in Uzbek and for a genuinely indigenous church.
  • Ask God to open the door for legal registration and public worship.
  • Pray for the Karakalpak people — one of Central Asia's least-reached groups.

Full Uzbekistan profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

frontier · approximately 0.1% Christian

Pray for Yemen

The world's worst humanitarian crisis, and one of its least-reached nations.

Prayer prompts

  • Pray for Yemenis facing hunger, disease and displacement.
  • Ask God to protect the small number of Yemeni believers.
  • Pray for relief and medical workers serving at real risk.
  • Pray for an end to a war the world has largely stopped watching.

Full Yemen profile — church size, unreached peoples and how to pray

How to pray for the nations

Begin with worship, learn with humility, pray Scripture for local people and leaders, strengthen believers in prayer, and respond with practical love.

Questions people ask

How can I pray for a nation I have never visited?

Learn with humility, thank God for the people, pray Scripture, ask for local believers to be strengthened, and listen for one practical response.

What is a frontier nation or people group?

Frontier mission usually describes peoples with extremely limited access to the Gospel and no known movement to Jesus large enough to reach the wider population without outside partnership. Definitions and estimates vary by research source.

How often should I pray for the nations?

Choose one nation for seven days, pray for two focused minutes each day, and invite one other person to join you.

Use data with humility.

Religious affiliation and Gospel-access figures are estimates that vary by source, method, and year. They are orientation tools for prayer—not a measure of a nation’s value or the depth of individual faith.

See mission sources and methodology