Cambodia is an East Asian nation, located next to Thailand and Vietnam. It is not in a horrific state economically, but there are still 31% of the people living below the poverty line. This is another country ravaged by disease, as they are recent victims of the feared avian (bird) flu. Also, they suffer from high amounts of bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria.
The biggest concern for Cambodia, however, is their lack of the Gospel. Over 96% of their population of 14,453,680 are Buddhist, with another 2.1% being Muslim. Do the math, and that's a quick 14,236,874 people without the Gospel. To put it in perspective, that second number is larger than the population of both New York, New York and Los Angeles, California...combined. That's a staggering amount of lost people. As a side note, CIA World Factbook states that there is another 1.5% of other religions/unspecified religions. So, out of that 1.5%, there are probably a small number of Christians.
Let's pray first, for the Christians in Cambodia. We have no idea how many there may be. Let's just pray that they stay true to the Word, as they have a lot of negative influence around them. Also, let's pray for the entire nation of Cambodia: for medical help, physical healing, economic healing, and most of all, spiritual healing.
For more information on Cambodia, go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cb.html
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