SAUDI ARABIA

PRAYER FOCUS

• Protection and unity for believers of like-precious faith!
• Ask the Lord to destroy the barriers of distrust and criticism that have derailed attempts at unity in the past!
• Pray for labourers to enter the harvest among every nationality, including KSA citizens!!
• Believers to influence those in government making human rights decisions for the nation
• Saudi is ranked as the #12 country where Christians face persecution. Pray for this intolerance to cease, and for God to give the Christians divine favor with the people and the government.
• According to several sources, radical Islamic breeding ground is widely present in the kingdom and Saudi funding of terrorism abroad is the main source of Sunni terrorism in the world. Pray that these practices will be stopped, and those that seek to wreak havoc on the world front would be exposed.

URGENT REQUEST:

Yemen has fired missiles into the country. Please pray for those affected and for peace to find it's way to this region. (Nov. 6, 2017)

FACTS ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA

Population: 27,752,316

Religion: Muslim (official; citizens are 85-90% Sunni and 10-15% Shia), other (includes Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh) (2012 est.)

note: despite having a large expatriate community of various faiths (more than 30% of the population), most forms of public religious expression inconsistent with the government-sanctioned interpretation of Sunni Islam are restricted; non-Muslims are not allowed to have Saudi citizenship and non-Muslim places of worship are not permitted (2013)

Languages: Arabic (official)

Ethnic Groups: Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10%

CITIES WITH POPULATION OVER 100,000

Riyahd

Jeddah

Mecca

Medina

Sultanah

Dammam

Ta'if

Tabuk

Buraydah

Khamis Mushait

Al Hafuf

Al Mubarraz

Hayil

Najran

Al Jubayi

Abha

Yanbu al Bahr

Khobar

Unaizah

Ar'ar

Sakaka

Jizan

Al Qurayyat