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23rd May 2010 |
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Pray for Botswana
Population 2 million People 3 per sq km Religion 70% Christian Positives The Kalahari Desert covers 80% of the country. Rapid development since independence through export of meat, diamonds, copper, nickel and gold. Earnings have been wisely used to develop country. A 20-year high rate of economic growth despite periodic droughts. Independence from Britain in 1966. Has a stable, multi-party democracy — a rarity in Africa.
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Prayer needs Complete freedom of religion. After two centuries of having the gospel, the old tribal religions remain strong, and often spiritually unchallenged. The Tswana were the first Bantu people in Africa to respond to the gospel; several tribes turned to God in the 19th Century through the LMS from England. Other missions followed. Nominalism soon became a major problem. The majority of Tswana are Christian in name but given over to immorality and drunkenness accentuated by the breakdown of family life. Pray for a reversal of the moral decline.
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