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16th January 2011 |
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Pray for Tunisia
Population 10.5 Million with 68 people per sq km Religion 98% Muslim 1% Christian
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Prayer needs Mountainous and agricultural in the north, Sahara desert in the south. Islam is the state religion. The government has maintained a secular tone and only a minority actively practice their faith. Politicised Islam has been met with little tolerance by the state. Not favourable to any form of Christian evangelism, but tolerance shown to foreign religious minorities. In earlier centuries the Christian Church was widespread, producing such leaders as Tertullian and Cyprian. Schism, heresy, a failure to put roots deep in the local culture or translate the Bible into local languages, foreign invasions and finally Islam, brought about its demise. Pray that a living, growing Church might become a reality again in this land.
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