These are places and conditions that constantly give us reason to intercede. Something is happening in these areas that calls the intercessor to cry out to God for mercy, intervention, peace, justice, salvation, and supernatural breakthrough upon the people.
The map shows reported belief in God, rather than Christian affiliation. Let it guide our prayer for renewed faith, faithful witness, and churches that serve their communities with love.
Watching the USA
Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List places these ten countries at the highest levels of violence and pressure against Christians. Pray for protection, courage, faithful witness, access to Scripture, justice, and comfort for families who have suffered loss.
India is ranked 12th and remains a major prayer focus; Nigeria ranks 7th overall and accounts for a large share of reported faith-related killings.
Source: Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Pray for women and girls facing barriers to education, work, movement, health care, legal protection, economic participation, and public life. Afghanistan is the clearest present emergency: women and girls remain excluded from secondary and higher education and much public employment.
Sources: World Bank—Women, Business and the Law · United Nations on Afghanistan
Prayer-focus intensity, not a statistical comparison. Restrictions vary by country and category.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, cyclones, droughts, landslides, and sea-level rise repeatedly threaten communities across Asia, the Americas, and highly vulnerable parts of Africa. Pray for warning systems, preparedness, protection, rapid rescue, wise leadership, and compassionate recovery.
Sources: WorldRiskReport · Climate Risk Index 2026
Directional summary of recurring exposure and vulnerability, not a probability forecast.
Pray where conversion is criminalized or punished, churches are controlled or attacked, Bibles are restricted, believers meet secretly, or extremist violence targets Christian communities. Ask God for bold witness, open doors, protection, religious freedom, and the breaking of spiritual strongholds.
Sources: Open Doors 2026 · U.S. International Religious Freedom Report
Illustrates recurring forms of opposition; bars are not country scores.
These are vast mission fields where many people may live without personal contact with a Christian witness. Pray for labourers, translation, access to Scripture, faithful local churches, dreams and divine encounters, and freedom to consider the gospel without fear.
Source: Pew Research Center religious composition data (2020 estimates, published 2025)
Pray for ceasefires, protection of civilians, release of captives, restraint of armed groups, healing of trauma, justice without vengeance, humanitarian access, and the silencing of weapons. Pray also against organized criminal violence that brings war-like suffering to communities.
Sources: ACLED Conflict Index · Global Peace Index
A prayer-priority visualization, not casualty statistics.
Weak governance, coups, factional rivalry, corruption, collapsing services, displacement, and loss of public trust can open the door to violence and exploitation. Pray for righteous leadership, stable institutions, peaceful transitions, justice, truth, and leaders who seek the welfare of their people.
Sources: Fragile States Index · World Bank—Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Conceptual display based on common fragility indicators.
Scripture directly calls us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for peace within her walls, protection of human life, wisdom for leaders, comfort for the grieving, release of captives, restraint of hatred, justice, reconciliation, and the knowledge of God.
Psalm 122:6–9 · Isaiah 62:1, 6–7 · Romans 10:1 · 1 Timothy 2:1–2
This is a standing biblical intercession point. It does not depend on a changing news cycle.
Israel · Jerusalem · all who live in the region