From the Back Cover

In your hands, a book to change the world.

If you want to have a powerful and meaningful prayer life; if you want to impact the nations for Christ through prayer, Operation World is for you. You will be a part of a global community of believers who use this book to inspire, inform and ignite their prayers.

When you hear a country mentioned in the news or in a conversation, and want to know more about it and what God is doing there, this book will help you. Engage your heart and mind in global prayer with this thoroughly-researched, fully-updated seventh edition. It is loaded with clear, concise, accurate information on peoples, languages, religions, denominations, spiritual trends and prayer needs - for every country in the world, from the largest to the smallest.

Leading evangelical mission leaders, scholars, writers, pastors and lay people all over the world rely on this book, refer to it, and quote from it regularly. Every fact, number and statement is checked and re-checked with global and local experts in each field.

Jason Mandryk and the Operation World research team asked Christian leaders everywhere: "How should the Body of Christ throughout the world be praying for your country?" This book is the result.

Operation World's easy-to-follow summaries of every nation include:

· Timely challenges for prayer and specific answers to prayer

· Updates on church growth, with a focus on evangelicals

· Charts and tables showing growth and decline of world religions

· Population, people group, and language statistics

· Charts and maps showing global religious and demographic trends

· Explanations of major currents in economics, politics and society

"One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer." William Carey, 1792. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.