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With gospel roots possibly tracing back to the apostle Thomas—or the generations soon after him—Christianity today only accounts for 2.3% of the population in India, the most populated country in the world. India has the largest Hindu population and the third largest Muslim population in the world. With religious persecution and a diverse religious population, the church in India is in need of prayer, support, and growth.

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With gospel roots possibly tracing back to the apostle Thomas—or the generations soon after him—Christianity today only accounts for 2.3% of the population in India, the most populated country in the world. India has the largest Hindu population and the third largest Muslim population in the world. With religious persecution and a diverse religious population, the church in India is in need of prayer, support, and growth.

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Total Population

0

Major Religion

Hinduism and Islam

Major Language

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam, and English

Capital City

New Delhi

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What we're doing in
India

Evangelism

To see the unreached reached with the gospel, we are joining alongside various evangelistic efforts in India. This includes partnering with a new urban church plant with a pastoral residency program and also supporting church planters in areas of India where there is little gospel presence and persecution against Christians.

We are also aiding a local church that is sharing the gospel with tribes in rural areas of India. This church is providing theological training to church leaders being sent and translating children’s ministry resources into the regional language.

Discipleship

The church in India has a need for sound theological resources in the vernacular. We are equipping leaders to write and publish gospel resources and books for their own contexts and languages. 

The published books are resources for seminaries, pastors, believers, and local churches. They provide faithful teaching that can be used for discipleship, preaching, and theological training.

Leadership Development

We are partnering with regular pastors’ trainings and conferences that provide teaching and encouragement for pastors in difficult-to-reach parts of India. During the conferences, pastors learn biblical teaching on the gospel, the church, and faithful ministry practices. The conferences also provide an opportunity for the pastors to network and encourage each other.

HOW TO PRAY FOR
India

For protection and perseverance.

Hindu nationalism is growing in India. Pray for the protection of Indian believers and for the Lord to strengthen them to be bold in their witness and persevere amidst opposition with grace, hope, and joy.

For community amoung new converts.

Pray for Christian converts to find community with other believers so that they can be encouraged in their new-found faith.

For laws against Christianity to be changed.

12 out of the 28 states in India have adopted anti-conversion laws, making it challenging to share the gospel openly and to baptize people from non-Christian backgrounds. While these laws are written against manipulative conversion, they are often enforced indiscriminately against genuine conversion. They have led to many house churches being shut down and preachers being jailed. Pray for these laws to be changed, for the safety of believers in seeking to stand firm in their faith, and for new converts to fear God rather than man.

For healthy churches to be planted.

Some areas of India have a multitude of churches where it’s safe to gather in person for worship. In other areas, believers have to meet in house churches, and there is a small gospel presence. Pray for the gospel to endure amidst persecution and for church leaders to be trained and sent to plant new, healthy churches.

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