Continent: North America
Capital: Ottawa
Population: 40,126,723
% Urban: 82.1%
Population Under 15: 16%
Official Language: English, French
Languages: 169
Literacy Rate: 99%
Life Expectancy: 82.7 years
% Christian: 72.1%
% Evangelical: 7.7%
Largest Religion: Christian
People Groups: 297
Least Reached People Groups: 63
% Unevangelized: 4%
Pray For Canada
Canada is a large country that has predominantly been a Catholic influenced nation. Recently many have begun leaving the Catholic beliefs and becoming more non-religious. The high level of immigrants pouring into the nation have also brought in many other false religious beliefs, changing the hearts and minds of the people.
During the early 1900’s, evangelism represented 25% of the churches in Canada. Since then, less than 8% are considered evangelical, willing to go out and share the gospel message with people outside the church. The terms, ‘born-again’ and ‘evangelical’ now often carry a negative term with them, causing many to flee from churches. People often accept spirituality over any religious belief.
With the high level of immigrants coming into the nation, there has been many new churches started among them. The desire to start new is high among the immigrants from many different nations and religions.
Points to pray:
Unity among the churches
Desire to know God more
Believers to do more witnessing
Softened hearts towards the Gospel message
Opportunities to witness to immigrants
Information and stats received from Operation World
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