Persecution’s growing severity
One in seven Christians worldwide faces persecution for following Jesus. Afghanistan replaced North Korea as the worst place to be a believer on the 2022 World Watch List. But Open Doors ministry gives us the 50 hardest countries in which to be a Christian.
30 days of breath prayers for the Muslim world
We are applying the practice of breathing a simple prayer each day to Project Prayer: Ramadan 2021. We ask you to whisper this prayer throughout the day with a Muslim person, people, group, nation, or the entire Islamic world in mind. Pray on!
Project Prayer 2021
We are starting February with a short prayer series focusing on countries on the World Watch List in which Climbing For Christ serves – Pakistan (at No. 5), India (No. 10), Turkey (No. 25), Nepal (No. 34), and Indonesia (No. 47).
Pray for the 50 countries where it is most difficult to follow Jesus
No monkey business
No monkey business By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ The Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) We know it as the Monkey Temple. It is a religious complex and major tourist attraction sitting on a hilltop in the capital of what was once a ...
Most dangerous places
Open Doors, a ministry that serves the persecuted church, uses data from field workers to analyze and quantify global persecution. This results in the annual World Watch List.
Countries are “ranked by the severity of persecution of Christians, calculated by analyzing th...
30 days of questions and prayer
for the Muslim world
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
DAY 30 (Saturday, May 23): Should I keep praying?
Ramadan ends today, but our prayer lives should continue to include those in the Musli...
A Turkish military patrol along the Syrian border when U.S.-backed Kurdish forces were fighting ISIS to the south. The Syrian Civil War (since 2011) and the battle against ISIS led to 3.5 million Syrians crossing the border into Turkey.
Green light means woe
By Gary Fallesen, founding presid...
‘Every part suffers’
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
245 million Christians live in the 50 countries (colored) where it’s most dangerous to follow Jesus. (Map by Open Doors)
The great missionary Paul wrote, “If one part suffers, every part suffe...
Life-giving words of Jesus
By Jordan Rowley, spiritual coordinator, Climbing For Christ
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” – Matthew 19:26
Dear Lord,
We worship You – the God who ...