Pray for: Romania

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Key Stats

Religion & Geography
Category Statistic
Continent: Europe
Capital: Bucharest
Population: 19,618,996
% Urban: 54.3 %
Population Under 15 Yrs: 15.6 %
Official Language: Romanian
Languages: 23
Literacy Rate: 99 %
Life Expectancy: 74.2 yrs (103/236)
HDI Ranking: 53 / 189
% Christian: 97 %
% Evangelical: 5.4 %
Largest Religion: Christian
% Largest Religion: 97 %
People Groups: 33
Least Reached People Groups: 7
% Unevangelized: 0 %

Romania

Title: Romania

Tier: 1

Type: country

Romanians as a mission force are a new and quickly expanding dynamic. At least ten indigenous sending agencies have emerged since 2000, and training programmes are multiplying. Members of Partners in Mission, most notably OC, were instrumental in shaping these changes. Romanians can easily access fields that Westerners cannot, and agencies are interested in Romanians serving with them. Limiting factors are the lack of financial support/sponsorship and the lagging missions vision in many churches. Pray for the removal of every barrier to the full flowering of an indigenous missions movement.

Romania

Title: Romania

Tier: 1

Type: country

Romania is one of the world’s most Christian nations by percentage, but it is difficult to see this in society. The atheistic worldview of Communism persists. Weak faith, hypocrisy, and slander of other denominations cause problems for all Christian groups. This does not glorify Christ, and does not build up the Church. Church members and even clergy mix faith with folk religious practices or the occult. Churches neglect many poor people. Pray for a breakthrough of love, holiness, discipleship, and prayer in all denominations.

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Content taken or adapted from Operation World, 7th Edition (2010) and Pray for the World (2015). Both books are published by InterVarsity Press. All rights reserved.