Capital:

Cairo

Population:

114,484,252

% Christian:

12.8 %

% Evangelical:

3.9 %

% Largest Religion (Muslim):

86.7 %

People Groups:

42

Least Reached People Groups:

25

% Unevangelized:

38 %

Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 2 Timothy 4:2 NKJV

1. A decade has passed since the upheaval of the Arab Spring. Christians still live in a precarious situation regarding religious freedom and persecution. Many Muslims would prefer Egypt did not have such a large Christian population. Pray for a government that serves God’s purposes – to restrain evil, punish crime, and enable peaceful and quiet lives among the citizenry.
2. Some efforts have been made to minimize Egypt’s great Christian heritage, to downplay the size of the Church and to marginalize its contribution to society. But the Church survives. Pray for recognition of its history and role within Egypt and for an even greater role in the future.
3. The Egyptian Church's vision for outreach is growing, but still in a very youthful stage in this modern era. Egyptian Christian workers have many advantages over non-Arabs in the Muslim world. Pray that the millions of Egyptian Christians in the West and Middle East may catch the vision to support such a thrust.