Answers to Prayer

1 The removal of the Berlin Wall in 1989, reunification of Germany in 1991 and Berlin once more becoming its capital, are symbols of a new Germany that has begun to lay its tragic past behind it

2 Increased enthusiasm among young people for spiritual things and the growth of evangelical/charismatic churches give rise to hopes that Germany's rapid spiritual decline might be slowing

Challenges for Prayer

1 Germany's wealth, power and strategic location in the EU and Europe could be of inestimable value for the Kingdom of God

2 There are numerous signs of spiritual ill-health in the nation

3 The post-war exodus from organized Christianity accelerated during the last decades of the 20th Century

4 The EKD is a federation of Lutheran, Reformed and combined United Lutheran/Reformed State Churches, but is deeply divided on political, moral and theological lines

Geography

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Area 357,042 sq.km. Strategically placed in the centre of Europe and of the expanding EU.

Population (2000) 82,220,490 +0.14%AGR

Capital Berlin 4,150,000.

Peoples

Indigenous 91.1%.

European Union (as of 2000) 2.5%.

Other Western 3%.

Other 3.4%.

Literacy almost 100%. Official language German. There are 110 million German-speakers worldwide. All languages 20. Languages with Scriptures 6Bi 3NT 5por.

Economy

Dramatic post-war recovery to become one of the world's strongest economies, with huge balance-of-payments surpluses. HDI 0.906; 14^th/174. Public debt 33% of GNP. Income/person $28,280 (90% of USA).

Politics

The collapse of Hitler's Reich in 1945 was followed by 45 years of partition between the democratic and capitalist Federal Republic (FRG) and the Communist 'Democratic' Republic (GDR).

Religion

Religious freedom.

Churches in Germany

Missionaries from Germany

approx. 4,090 in about 133 agencies with about 3,000 in 150 countries.

Missionaries to Germany

1,531 in 150 agencies from 40 countries

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