Pray for China

• Full Name: People’s Republic of China
• Government Type: Communist State
• Leader(s): Hu Jintao (president)
• Population: 1,343,239,923 (July 2012 est.)
• People Groups: 425
• Religions:
• Daoist (Taoist)
• Buddhist
• Protestant Christianity
• Catholicism
• Islam
• Atheism (official)
• Average Annual Income (GNI per capita): $4,270 (2010 est.)
• Population Below Poverty Line: 13.4% (2011 est.)
• Prayer requests:
• Pray for five unengaged people groups of China, that the Lord would send workers to these harvest fields: Ya, Tai Pong, Yangliu Lalu, Cao Lan, and AChe.
• China is a vast country with a huge and diverse population. Pray that the Lord would raise up missionaries and national believers for and among every people group to reach many with the good news of the gospel.
• The government allows Christianity, but churches must be registered, and are subject to stifling restrictions. The government reserves the right to determine who can preach and what is preached.  Many activities that facilitate the spread of the gospel are illegal, including proselytizing, unauthorized printing of Bibles, and Bible importation. Pray for those who are part of the underground church movement and find ways to boldly share their faith, and that they would stand firm and persevere in the midst of persecution.
• The Chinese government enforces a one-child policy, which limits the amount of children a family can have in a large portion of the population. Pray that this practice would come to an end. Also, pray for the social, but more importantly, spiritual effects and ramifications of this practice, and that believers would know how to properly minister to those affected.