Open Doors has just released the 2022 “World Watch List” of the 50 most dangerous places to be a Christian.
This is one of the resources I use to pray “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”.

Here are some excerpts from a WNG interview with the president of Open Doors:

• Across the globe, well over 300 million Christians live in countries and regions where they suffer religious persecution. One out of every eight believers worldwide live in a place where they cannot safely declare and practice their faith in public. Each year, Open Doors USA publishes its World Watch List—shining a light on the 50 places around the world where it costs the most to be a Christian… It's the largest grassroots survey on the religious freedom of Christians in the world today. That's why it's trusted by the White House and State Department in all the different administrations…
  
  
• And the country that has the highest overall score on this year’s list is Afghanistan… North Korea has been number one for almost two decades. North Korea hasn’t gotten better – Afghanistan has gotten worse… there is no freedom of religion for Christians in Afghanistan today…
  
  
• China's number 17 on our list this year. It continues to move up the list. But that actually sort of belies the major issue there. It is the number one model of centralized control being used against religious minorities. They have all of this technology—facial recognition, they monitor the internet, they control the internet, they use artificial intelligence to watch whether you're attending church or a mosque. And then they punish you by diminishing your social score so that if you're too observant to Christian faith, you can't fly, you can't travel, you can lose your job, your kids aren't going to be able to go to the school of their choice.

Let us pray regularly for the light of the gospel to spread in dark places.

Blessings in Christ,

Pastor Evan