Remember them that are in bonds

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.” Hebrews 13:3 (KJV)

A country-level prayer guide for the persecuted church, drawn from public reports. 40 countries. Each entry links to its source.

Countries

Afghanistan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 11 of 50, score 86 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Afghanistan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Hebrews 13:3 (KJV)

Algeria

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 20 of 50, score 77 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Algeria who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

Matthew 5:10-12 (KJV)

Azerbaijan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 52 (not in WWL top 50), score 65 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Azerbaijan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”

Matthew 5:44 (KJV)

Bangladesh

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 33 of 50, score 71 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Bangladesh who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

John 15:18-20 (KJV)

Burkina Faso

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 16 of 50, score 80 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Burkina Faso who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 8:35, 37-39 (KJV)

Burma (Myanmar)

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 14 of 50, score 81 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Burma (Myanmar) who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (KJV)

Cameroon

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 37 of 50, score 70 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Cameroon who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (KJV)

China

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 17 of 50, score 79 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in China who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”

Hebrews 11:36-38 (KJV)

Cuba

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 24 of 50, score 73 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Cuba who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. … Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”

1 Peter 4:12-14, 16 (KJV)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 29 of 50, score 72 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Democratic Republic of the Congo who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Hebrews 13:3 (KJV)

Egypt

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 42 of 50, score 68 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Egypt who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

Matthew 5:10-12 (KJV)

Eritrea

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 5 of 50, score 90 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Eritrea who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”

Matthew 5:44 (KJV)

India

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 12 of 50, score 84 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in India who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

John 15:18-20 (KJV)

Indonesia

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Under observation
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 59 (not in WWL top 50), score 62 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Indonesia who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 8:35, 37-39 (KJV)

Iran

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 10 of 50, score 87 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Iran who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (KJV)

Iraq

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 18 of 50, score 79 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Iraq who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (KJV)

Kazakhstan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 45 of 50, score 67 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Kazakhstan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”

Hebrews 11:36-38 (KJV)

Kyrgyzstan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 40 of 50, score 68 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Kyrgyzstan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. … Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”

1 Peter 4:12-14, 16 (KJV)

Libya

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 9 of 50, score 87 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Libya who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Hebrews 13:3 (KJV)

Malaysia

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 51 (not in WWL top 50), score 65 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Malaysia who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

Matthew 5:10-12 (KJV)

Maldives

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 19 of 50, score 79 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Maldives who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”

Matthew 5:44 (KJV)

Mali

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 15 of 50, score 81 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Mali who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

John 15:18-20 (KJV)

Mozambique

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 39 of 50, score 69 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Mozambique who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 8:35, 37-39 (KJV)

Nicaragua

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 32 of 50, score 71 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Nicaragua who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (KJV)

Niger

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 26 of 50, score 72 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Niger who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (KJV)

Nigeria

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 7 of 50, score 89 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Nigeria who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”

Hebrews 11:36-38 (KJV)

North Korea

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 1 of 50, score 97 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in North Korea who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. … Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”

1 Peter 4:12-14, 16 (KJV)

Pakistan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 8 of 50, score 87 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Pakistan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Hebrews 13:3 (KJV)

Qatar

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 44 of 50, score 67 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Qatar who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

Matthew 5:10-12 (KJV)

Russia

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 56 (not in WWL top 50), score 63 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Russia who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”

Matthew 5:44 (KJV)

Saudi Arabia

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 13 of 50, score 82 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Saudi Arabia who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

John 15:18-20 (KJV)

Somalia

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 2 of 50, score 94 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Somalia who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 8:35, 37-39 (KJV)

Sudan

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 4 of 50, score 92 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Sudan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (KJV)

Syria

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 6 of 50, score 90 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Syria who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (KJV)

Tajikistan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 27 of 50, score 72 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Tajikistan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”

Hebrews 11:36-38 (KJV)

Turkey (Türkiye)

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 41 of 50, score 68 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Turkey (Türkiye) who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. … Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”

1 Peter 4:12-14, 16 (KJV)

Turkmenistan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 35 of 50, score 71 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Turkmenistan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Hebrews 13:3 (KJV)

Uzbekistan

USCIRF 2026
Recommended for Special Watch List
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 25 of 50, score 73 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Uzbekistan who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

Matthew 5:10-12 (KJV)

Vietnam

USCIRF 2026
Recommended Country of Particular Concern
ACN 2025
Discrimination
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 55 (not in WWL top 50), score 64 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Vietnam who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”

Matthew 5:44 (KJV)

Yemen

USCIRF 2026
Not on USCIRF 2026 CPC or SWL recommendation lists
ACN 2025
Persecution
Open Doors World Watch List 2026
Rank 3 of 50, score 93 of 100
Reporting period 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025. © Open Doors International. World Watch List · Methodology

Father, strengthen believers in Yemen who suffer for the name of Jesus Christ. Keep them faithful, supply their needs, and comfort those who grieve and those who are imprisoned. Turn the hearts of those who persecute them, that they too may know Christ. Amen.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

John 15:18-20 (KJV)

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