Day 3

MARCH | 2023

Bangladesh

PRAYER FOR THIS COUNTRY

One Christian ministry is involved in teaching Bangladeshi churches how to disciple others. Their heart is to see whole churches capture a missional vision, to be equipped to disciple others in the community in order that small groups multiply, and new churches are born. Praise God for these Bangladeshi men and women who take seriously Jesus’ command to go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Pray that as they obey this in their own communities, in their own nation, many people will come to faith in Christ and be discipled well (The Bible, Mark 16:15).

Source: Christian workers in the region

MORE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY

The third largest Muslim majority country in the world, Bangladesh, is densely populated. Corruption and widespread human rights abuses remain challenges, as do regular widespread flooding and other climate-related natural disasters. The nation’s politics continues its slow slide from the pro-independence protest movement of the late 1960s, towards an increasingly one-party-dominated political horizon.  Despite persecution against Christian Believers, the Church has grown in faith, boldness, and numbers. Bangladesh continues to host most of the world’s Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, one of the largest and most devastating refugee crises in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic was very damaging for Bangladesh’s economic, social, and healthcare sectors, but recovery was gaining momentum until the recent global food and fuel shortages began to take their toll.

CHIEF OF STATE
President Abdul Hamid
HEAD OF GOV.
PM Sheikh Hasina
POPULATION
166.3 million
CHRISTIANS
0.4%
EVANGLICAL CHRISTIANS
Unknown
DOMINANT RELIGION
Islam
PERSECUTION RANKING
31
REFUGEES
232,485
LIFE EXPECTANCY
70.94 yrs
LITERACY RATE
56.8%
POPULATION BELOW POVERTY LINE
31.5%