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Place: Nashik District, Indian State of Maharashtra
Population: 4 million
Christians: Less than 20,000 people, 0.5% (all denominations combined).
Muslims: 600,000 people, 6,7% (mostly city dwellers)

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The evolving world of Islamic universities has become a major challenge for Christians. The mission of Islamic education is to establish Quranic values and promote Islamic rule and influence worldwide through university community life and studies. The biographies of leading Muslim fundamentalist intellectuals have become essential reading for many students. Muslim academics are often [...]

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Firozabad is a significant city of approximately a half million people located 45 minutes east of Agra by car (the city where the Taj Mahal is located). Firozabad is still being researched for ministry purposes. No local congregation of Christians exists there at the present time. It appears that about half the population is Muslim. [...]

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Islam was introduced to India by conquest and grew through the successful efforts of Muslim missionaries and high birth rates. Today India is the second largest Muslim nation in the world.

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When we originally prayed for Zanskar in our 30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World in 2001 it seemed that the Muslims of Zanskar were completely untouched by the Gospel. There was no known Christian witness to them. But…

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Often these women are neither educated, nor able to provide their children with education. Of the estimated 60 million Muslim women in India, almost 2/3 are illiterate. In the north Indian state of Haryana, the illiteracy rate among Muslim women is a staggering 98%.

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Many of Varanasi’s Muslims belong to a weaver caste called “Ansari”, or “helper” in Arabic. For generations they have passed on their craft from father to son, hand-weaving silk on room-sized, foot-powered looms.

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Saharanpur (140km north of Delhi) is a city of almost one million people in the overcrowded Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city is famous for its large Muslim community (approximately 45 per cent of the population) and its hand-carved wooden handicrafts.

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