Prayer Points

NIGERIA - Pray for protection for the Church in Nigeria. Christmas is often a time of increased attacks for churches that risk so much to gather and celebrate their Saviour’s birth.

NIGERIA - Pray that God will bring His supernatural peace to Nigerian Christians who live with the anxiety of knowing they could be attacked at any given time.

NIGERIA - Most of the villages in Benue State were Christian. Pray for comfort and strength for people mourning the loss of family and friends. May they be encouraged knowing their loved ones are with Jesus.

NIGERIA - For one horrifying week, armed Fulani militants ravaged villages in Nigeria’s Benue State. When they left, at least 200 people were dead, and thousands were displaced from their homes.

PAKISTAN - Pray for Anwar as he recovers from his ordeal,and ask God to sustain all those in Pakistan facing false and unjust blasphemy accusations.

PAKISTAN - Pray that the case of Anwar will be a watershed moment and a landmark decision, leading to more acquittals and a stop to the misuse and abuse of the blasphemy law.

PAKISTAN - Praise God that after 23 years on death row, your brother, 72-year-old Anwar Kenneth, was acquitted of blasphemy. Pray that he and his legal team will be protected from any retaliation by extremists.

AFGHANISTAN - Samira thanks you for praying with her and shares one more request: “Pray for physical safety, that we are not discovered and for our faith to stay strong. Pray for access to the Bible, and for more people…

AFGHANISTAN - As Christmas approaches, pray that Afghan Christians would sense in their minds and hearts, “Emmanuel, God with us.” Samira shares: “Please pray that God makes our hearts strong in times of fear and silence.”

AFGHANISTAN - Samira*, an Afghan Christian woman, shares: “Even if we can’t go to church, we pray in our hearts and rooms.” She asks the Open Doors community: “Pray that we feel the Holy Spirit in our loneliness.”