30 days of prayer for the Islamic world

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30 Opening Prayer for the Muslim World (English 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World ) is an international evangelical prayer initiative that since 1993 every year in parallel with the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan takes place. One of its goals is to support Christian minorities and converts who have left Islam and turned to Christianity. In addition, the proselytizing of followers of Islam is supported.

The prayer initiative

The The 30-Days International team is among others from the Evangelical Alliance , the 10/40 Window project, the YWAM , the Operation Mobilization , Frontiers and other mission agencies and various Christian churches supported. The accompanying prayer booklet is available in 42 languages ​​and is distributed through 30 national offices of the organizers and can be downloaded from the Internet. So far, there are localized websites for Australia , Austria , the Czech Republic , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , Korea , the Netherlands , Norway , Slovakia , South Africa , Sweden , Switzerland and the USA .

In Germany, two different editions of the prayer calendar are published by the Islamic Working Group of the German Evangelical Alliance , a standard edition and a variant for families. The English-language edition distributed in 2009 was 350,000 copies, according to the editors, and 80,000 prayer books were printed in German in 2008, according to the (non-participating) Vatican Radio .

The prayer requests, which change daily during the 30-day campaign, focus on either an entire Muslim state, a single city, an ethnic group or Muslims living in non-Islamic foreign countries, e.g. B. as guest workers, live.

Background and objectives

The German initiators include the Secretary General of the German Evangelical Alliance, Hartmut Steeb, and the Islamic scholar Christine Schirrmacher , who is a member of the “Working Group Islam” of the German Evangelical Alliance .

According to his own statement, 30 days of prayer for the Islamic world is aimed at Christians of all denominations who want to find out more about the current situation in selected Islamic states and ethnic groups and for the conversion of Muslims and for an improvement in the situation of discriminated and persecuted Christians in the want to pray to respective countries and religious freedom .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basler Zeitung online Evangelicals want to convert Swiss Turks, by Michael Meier, April 15, 2009
  2. ↑ About 30 Days ( Memento from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of The 30-Days Prayer Network (English)
  3. ↑ Vatican Radio: 30-Day Prayer for the Islamic World , article from July 8, 2008