2025 World Watch List
Several countries in which Climbing For Christ is working or has members made the 2025 World Watch List of persecuted places [marked with *]. Open Doors reports that 380 million Christians worldwide suffer “high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.” That’s one in seven.
These are the 50 most dangerous countries for Christ followers:
1 North Korea
2 Somalia
3 Yemen
4 Libya
5 Sudan
6 Eritrea
7 Nigeria*
8 Pakistan*
9 Iran
10 Afghanistan
11 India*
12 Saudi Arabia*
13 Myanmar*
14 Mali
15 China*
16 Maldives
17 Iraq
18 Syria
19 Algeria
20 Burkina Faso
21 Morocco
22 Laos
23 Mauritania
24 Bangladesh*
25 Uzbekistan*
26 Cuba
27 Central African Republic
28 Niger
29 Turkmenistan
30 Nicaragua
31 Mexico*
32 Oman
33 Ethiopia
34 Tunisia
35 Congo DR (DRC)
36 Bhutan
37 Mozambique*
38 Kazakhstan
39 Tajikistan
40 Egypt
41 Qatar*
42 Comoros
43 Cameroon
44 Vietnam
45 Turkey*
46 Colombia*
47 Kyrgyzstan
48 Brunei
49 Chad
50 Jordan
For more on the World Watch List: World Watch List 2025 · Serving Persecuted Christians Worldwide
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