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18th December 2011 Pray for Uzbekistan Population: 27.7 million with 62 people per sq km. Religion: 85% Muslim, 1% Christian Prayer Points Fertile, irrigated mountain valleys in the east, with desert and Aral Sea in the west. North of Afghanistan. Uzbekistan is an arena of competing value systems. The term Uzbek means “master of himself”, but many seek to enslave the Uzbeks with their ideologies: warmed-over communism, radical Islamism and occult-tainted folk Islam. Pray that Uzbeks might find freedom by serving the Lord their Creator and true Master. Uzbekistan is the strategic key to Central Asia, hence the intensifying struggle between the post-Soviet regime and the Islamist movements. The government’s “iron fist” policy is not deterring thousands of jobless young men from joining these movements. But much of the population is torn between these two and tired of the poverty, corruption and failure to progress. Pray for genuine change, reform and leadership that demonstrates uprightness and governs for the sake of the people. Pray that in the midst of the struggle, many may find true peace that only Jesus can give.
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