A Billion Hours of Prayer for a Billion Buddhists The Billion Hours of Prayer Project is a call to raise one billion hours of fervent prayer and intercession by Christians globally for the Buddhists of the world. This may be accomplished by individuals, families, blocks, cells or congregational groups. If a minimum of 20 million Christians world-wide burdened [...]

From 3,400 adherents in 1900 and 11,600 in 1970, Buddhism has risen to an estimated 134,000 by 2000, and is projected to rise to 293,000 by 2025. Buddhism is very dispersed and disorganized yet growing. Tens of thousands of Buddhists live in Ghana and more live in small informal groups in other countries. Buddhist centers are located in South [...]

South Asia generally includes the 7 nations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and British Indian Ocean Territories. Variety is the spice of life, and there is certainly much variety in the world’s spiciest region. In these 7 countries live almost 3,000 least-reached people groups! Islam controls the hearts of many of the peoples of Bangladesh, but [...]

The 7 countries of Northeast Asia are lands humming with action.  China, Japan and South Korea have economies that are growing at rates that almost defy imagination. The 21st century could easily be the time when Korean and Chinese missionaries take the lead in reaching the world for Christ. Presently Korea is the second largest sending base [...]

The first missionaries that went to the 27 island nations of the South Pacific 200 years ago were stunned by the beautiful green landscapes and women with long black hair. But they were also appalled by immorality, human sacrifices and idolatry. Thanks to the hard work of these missionary pioneers, it is difficult to find [...]

[lang_en]Obstacles to the gospel for Buddhists To bring the good news of Jesus Christ to Buddhists, we must overcome a number of obstacles. People groups without Gospel witness remain so for one of several reasons: It may be because they are unrecognized by believers because they are small in number, isolated from the remainder of society in [...]

[lang_en][lang_en]I was just sent a listing of the 390+ “least-reached Buddhist” peoples—in the classic sense (not in the way Todd Johnson helped us “recount” the Buddhist world as Alex Smith and others have been saying for some time now, 2005)…totaling a little more than 271 million least-reached peoples of the Buddhist world (obviously eliminating groups like the [...]

[lang_en]Sri Lankans elected a new president [November 17] who faces the challenge of dealing with a Buddhist elite seeking greater control over religious minorities. Christians are greatly concerned about pressure on President Mahinda Rajapakse from Buddhists. Prior to the elections, Rajapakse formed an alliance with the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU or National Heritage Party), a Buddhist party [...]

[lang_en]More than 1,000 Buddhist monks staged a protest in Sri Lanka on September 20, asking that anti-conversion legislation be put back on the parliamentary agenda before presidential elections scheduled for November 17. Other pressing issues, including tsunami relief efforts and ongoing peace negotiations with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), meant the legislation had been put on hold.  Two [...]

[lang_en]France has witnessed a huge growth in the influence of Buddhism—particularly the Tibetan variety—in the past 20 years, thanks to the establishment of numerous monasteries and the charisma of the Dalai Lama. A survey last September revealed 11% of French people described themselves as “close to Buddhism”, behind 62% who said the same of Roman Catholicism and 19% [...]