{"id":26212,"date":"2014-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/christian-minorities-2362\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:44","slug":"christian-minorities-2362","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/christian-minorities-2362\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b1de20cbab9f9796edf0c527b87ed0cb.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>As Muslims around the world celebrate Islamic New Year, many Christians in Muslim-majority countries are working on building relationships with their Muslim neighbours. Despite the hostility there can often be between different religious communities, inter-community activities and peace building initiatives are providing a powerful witness to the love of God. Yet these Christians need our prayers in the challenging world they live in.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Pray for the Indonesian Church to unite in speaking out for religious freedom, as radical Islamism grows in Indonesia;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that Indonesia\u2019s new president, Joko Widodo, would take concrete steps to protect religious minorities from the rising tide of intolerance;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to continue to uphold the Christian communities in Lahore and especially the district of Yohannabad in Pakistan, surrounded by Islamic schools and mosques preaching extremism.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for interfaith harmony efforts in southern Punjab province, Pakistan, and that God would use our contacts Romana and Arif to build peace between communities;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for Christians in Quetta, Pakistan, ostracised and threatened by Islamist extremist groups;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thank God for the strength of the Iranian Church despite the increasing harassment and persecution Christians face;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to give spiritual and emotional strength to the wives and families of pastors in prison in Iran because of their faith.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Muslims around the world celebrate Islamic New Year, many Christians in Muslim-majority countries are working on building relationships with their Muslim neighbours.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7720,"template":"","regions":[128,132,148,145,126,121],"class_list":["post-26212","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-east-asia","regions-indonesia","regions-iran","regions-middle-east-north-africa","regions-pakistan","regions-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40882,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26212\/revisions\/40882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}