Myanmar – PBC – Baptist Church

Praying for the Nations

Union of Myanmar / Asia

pray for: Myanmar

Watch and Pray:

Geography:

Basin and delta of the Irrawaddy River ringed by a horseshoe of high mountains that isolates the country from India, China and Thailand.

Population: 50,495,672

Capital: Naypyidaw

Urbanites: 33.9%

HDI Rank: 138 of 182

People:

Peoples: 142 (36% unreached)

All peoples / Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Burmese

Languages: 116

All languages

Religion:

Largest Religion: Buddhist

Religion	Pop %
Christians	8.98
Evangelicals	5.0
Buddhist	80.04

Challenges for Prayer:

The military regime seeks to destroy Christianity (which it calls “the C-virus”), yet faith keeps spreading. Christians are generally kept out of positions of power and influence. Military campaigns against Christian minorities are well publicized, and over 3,000 Christian villages have been burned out in the last 10 years. Churches are not given permission to register and are thereby considered illegal and subject to harassment. The expulsion of foreign Christian workers in 1966 left a young church to cope on its own with little mature leadership or infrastructure. Adversity, persecution and isolation have helped shape a resilient, enduring faith.