Prayers for Laos

Throughout the year, World Mission Partnership is in touch with Church in Chains, an Irish organisation that encourages prayer and action in support of persecuted Christians worldwide. Church in Chains share prayer points to equip Irish Methodists to pray for specific places and people.

Over the next couple of months, please pray for Laos:  

• Laos is ruled by a Communist government that closely monitors all religious activity and, in some areas, police warn Christians against meeting together and forbid children from going to church. Thank God that despite the ongoing persecution, the number of Christians in Laos is growing significantly!   

• Church leaders are vulnerable to imprisonment, and once detained their families or congregations often must pay considerable amounts of money to ensure their release. Today we pray that the Lord would guard pastors from detention and strengthen imprisoned pastors in body, mind, and spirit. We also pray for their imminent release.   

• We pray for the widow and eight children of Pastor Seetoud, who was killed in October near his home village. We pray comfort and provision for his family facing into the new year without Seetoud.   

• Violence against women is culturally widely accepted in Laos and young Christian women are caught up in the increase in human trafficking of brides to China. We ask the Lord to rescue and protect these girls and women!