Praying for France

Operation World prayed for France this week.  Some of their stats:

• 62,000,0000 live in France
• 603,000 are evangelical believers = 1% of the population!
• 38,000,000 are Catholic
• 2,500 evangelical fellowships, dozens more added each year

Their prayer summary:

France as a politico-economic entity is at a crossroads. Amid a brave fight against globalization, radical reforms are urgently needed in industry and in state economic structures. France, like many European nations with an aging population, must face the inevitable and unsustainable pressure on the pension system and retirement age. Painful decisions that are right for the country must be made despite opposition. Coupled with this is the increasing tension between traditional French identity and the growing, restive immigrant community; the model of integration in which France has taken pride no longer appears to function. The majority of French are content individually but place little confidence in the collective future of the Republic; too many centrifugal social forces are at play.

Just today, we were sharing with a friend at school about the difference between Christianity and Jehovah's Witness. May God open the hearts and minds of those in France to see His divine Son.  
(HT: Janet)