Good morning, friend. Welcome to Saturday – and to Map Day! 

When we’re praying our way through the Ramadan or Buddhist Prayer Challenges (click the names to learn more), Map Day is a bit more geographically diverse. When we pray for Hindus, even though we are praying for 1.2 billion people (almost one in six people alive today!), we get to zoom in on one specific part of the world. As the map we’ve included from the Pew Research Center illustrates, less than 1% of Hindus live outside the Asia-Pacific region of the world.   

Only three countries have a Hindu majority: India, Nepal, and Mauritius. That said, 97% of all Hindus live in one of those three countries, which means that Hindus are the most likely of all the world’s major religions to experience life as the majority culture (Christians, by the way, are the world’s only major religion to be scattered throughout the world’s regions). You can imagine how this contributes to a mixing of religion, politics, and culture which can make coming to Christ even more complicated for our Hindu friends. Most of the world’s Hindus must push back not only against religion but also family, politics, and culture to follow Jesus. 

Allow your mind to roam over the globe – this earth that your Father in Heaven created. Focus in on these countries:  

• India   

• Nepal  

• Bangladesh  

• Indonesia  

• Pakistan  

• Sri Lanka  

• United States  

• Malaysia  

Each of these countries is home to more than one million Hindus. Pray for peace. Pray for the Prince of Peace to be recognized as the Lord He is. Pray for movement, for thousands and eventually millions of Hindus to come to recognize Jesus as the Light.   

Your prayers for the nations really do matter. Keep it up!

Andy