|
|
ENGLAND
1 England is the most secular of the four countries that comprise the UK. The steady decline in belief and church attendance is of deep concern
2 London is one of the world’s hub cities for finance, travel, politics, etc
a) Inner-city church planting
b) Ethnic minorities are increasingly becoming the majority in many London boroughs
3 England’s inner cities have become physical and spiritual wastelands, riddled with drugs and crime
NORTHERN IRELAND
1 A measure of peace has returned to Northern Ireland but the mistrust and resentment for the past remain and the stashed weapons are not yet decommissioned
2 Northern Ireland’s conflict has given opponents of Christianity opportunity to dismissively claim that ‘religions cause wars’. Pray that the grounds for this may be removed
3 The Northern Irish are a church-going people – the great majority, both Protestant and Catholic, are regular in church attendance and the decline elsewhere in the British Isles is less evident here
4 The missionary burden of Northern Ireland churches is higher than elsewhere in the UK. Pray that this generosity in giving of money and personnel for world evangelization may continue!
SCOTLAND
1 Revivals in past centuries and the localized revivals of the northeast coast in 1925 and Lewis in the Hebrides in the 1950s need to be repeated on a national scale
2 Scotland has sent out great men and women to bless the world such as David Livingstone, Robert Moffatt, Mary Slessor and Eric Liddell
3 The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in structure and is the established Church
4 Church growth has been evident among Catholics, Baptists, Pentecostals and especially the newer churches
WALES
1 Wales is known as the land of revivals
2 Economic changes have had a profound impact
3 Wales struggles to preserve its own language and culture
|
Area 130,400 sq.km.
Population 49,100,000; 377 people/sq.km.
Capital London 11.8 million.
Area 14,100 sq.km.
Population 1,663,000; 118 people/sq.km.
Capital Belfast 704,000.
The problems of Northern Ireland are but a continuation of the centuries-old tension between the Celtic Irish and Anglo-Saxon Scots-English. It is a historical coincidence that the former are Catholic and the latter largely Protestant.
Area 78,800 sq.km.
Population 5,128,000; 65 people/sq.km.
Capital Edinburgh 648,000.
In 1998 Scotland once more had its own parliament after
nearly 300 years of representation only in London
Area 20,800 sq.km.
Population 2,921,000; 140 people/sq.km.
Capital Cardiff 655,000
Wales has had a national assembly since 1998, but for the nationalists, this falls far short of their dream of Welsh independence.
 Internet Links 
|
.
Challenges for Prayer 
Geography - England 
Politics - Northern Ireland