World Watch List Country Profiles 2014 Every day millions of Christians are persecuted because of their faith. The World Watch List ranks the 50 countries where persecution is most severe. Worldwide, the list reports that pressure on Christians intensified in 2013. The situation deteriorated most rapidly across North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf, in countries where sectarian violence has advanced unchecked by impotent central governments. When you ask persecuted Christians what they need, almost without exception they answer, “Prayer.” Prayer is the one thing that border guards and religious police cannot keep out. Prayer reaches the most remote villages and infiltrates the most inaccessible labour camps. Prayer changes things. The church is shaken, bruised, grieving. But the church is growing. The church is enduring. The church is alive. And the church needs our prayer the World Watch List - a ranking of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. The list is based on detailed information provided by Open Doors co-workers in over 65 countries, as well as independent experts. Data is gathered on five spheres of life – private, family, community, national and church life - plus a sixth sphere measuring the degree of violence. 2014 World Watch List 1.North Korea 2.Somalia 3.Syria 4.Iraq 5.Afghanistan 6.Saudi Arabia 7.Maldives 8.Pakistan 9.Iran 10.Yemen 11.Sudan 12.Eritrea 13.Libya 14.Nigeria 15.Uzbekistan 16.Central African Republic 17.Ethiopia 18.Vietnam 19.Qatar 20.Turkmenistan 21.Laos 22.Egypt 23.Burma/Myanmar 24.Brunei 25.Colombia 26.Jordan 27.Oman 28.India 29.Sri Lanka 30.Tunisia 31.Bhutan 32.Algeria 33.Mali 34.Palestinian Territories 35.United Arab Emirates 36.Mauritania 37.China 38.Kuwait 39.Kazakhstan 40.Malaysia 41.Bahrain 42.Comoros 43.Kenya 44.Morocco 45.Tajikistan 46.Djibouti 47.Indonesia 48.Bangladesh 49.Tanzania 50.Niger let us not think we are better, theres coming a day where professing Christians will be tested in one way or another to test the there faith weather it be real or not. everything thing is tested why not our faith, metal, food, cars, wood, students in schools , etc.. to see if its real or not and to see if it can with stand. let us not take lightly our profession for it will be tested.
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