Armenia
Continent: Asia
Capital: Yerevan
Population: 2,777,979
% Urban: 63.4%
Population Under 15: 20.8%
Official Language: Armenian
Languages:12
Literacy Rate: 99%
Life Expectancy: 85 years
% Christian: 94.4%
% Evangelical: 8.7%
Largest Religion: Christian
People Groups: 16
Least Reached People Groups: 3
% Unevangelized: 1%
Armenia has a very long history of Christianity within its nation. It is believed to be the first Christian nation in the world. Throughout the centuries believers in Armenia have survived through a lot of persecution against them.
Although Armenia has a long history of Christianity, nearly 1,700 years, there is a great divide between believers from the East to the West, orthodox and non-orthodox. There is a great difference in what is believed and how to run churches. Hostility towards each other runs very high. There is a great distrust in believers who are not a part of the main orthodox church. As a result, there is very little evangelism done to spread the gospel message.
Believing Armenians living outside of Armenia are doing an excellent job at evangelizing others.
Points to pray:
Unity among believers
Vision to evangelize
Boldness of leaders in the church
Recognition of their Christian heritage
Provision for the materials to spread the Gospel message
Information and stats received from Operation World
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