Loving Muslims Through Prayer | www.30-days.net » These tags are specific to the 30-Days Muslim prayer focus booklet http://www.30-days.net/muslims 107 Muslim countries, people groups and cities we pray for Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:07:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Pray for the Muslim World http://www.30-days.net/muslims/statistics/pray/ http://www.30-days.net/muslims/statistics/pray/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:17:45 +0000 TDI http://www.30-days.net/muslims/statistics/pray/ Order your "30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World" prayer guide here.
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The annual, worldwide, 30-Days Muslim Prayer Focus is for Christians to humbly learn about Islam and pray for Muslims during Ramadan (Islam's important annual month of fasting and religious observance). This years motto: "Loving Muslims Through Prayer"

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]]> http://www.30-days.net/muslims/statistics/pray/feed/ 41 Statistics on Muslims in the United States of America (USA) http://www.30-days.net/muslims/muslims-in/america-north/usa-muslims/ http://www.30-days.net/muslims/muslims-in/america-north/usa-muslims/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:14:14 +0000 TDI http://www.30-days.net/muslims/muslims-in/america-north/usa-muslims/ dearborn-mosque-michigan
For many years the Muslim community in America had been a small minority but today it is one of the fastest growing religions in the country. Muslims first came to America in the 1860's from Syria and Lebanon. Today it is estimated that there are between 6 to 7 million Muslims in America, roughly 2% of the entire population. (Image from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn_Mosque)

First Mosque in America

The first official mosque was built in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934. Today, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) based in Washington DC, there are more than 1,209 known mosques throughout America. The majority of mosques were established since the 1980's with a 25% increase in the number of mosques in the past 8 years. In addition to these there are hundreds of Islamic cultural centres and schools.

There are large communities of Muslims in almost every large city. Ethnically diverse, the largest community of Muslims come from South Asia (33%) followed by African-Americans (30%). Arab Muslims make up 25% of the Muslim population. While Islam is rapidly growing in every ethnic class, the highest number of Muslim converts are from the African-American community (64%). The second highest number of converts are white Americans (27%).

Muslim Visibility in America

One of the most active recruiting grounds for Islam in the USA is in university campuses where many groups have well funded and organised student programs. Key organisations such as CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America, Muslim Students Association of USA, provide religious training, education, and support to Muslim communities and campuses throughout the country.

Since the events of 11 September 2001 and the attacks in New York and Washington, the Muslim community has become increasingly visible. The Arab-American community of Brooklyn, New York, held a candlelight march near the World Trade Centre site. Soon after, Muslim leaders attended a formal gathering in the White House in Washington for the first time in history. There have also been increased attacks against America's Muslims with thousands of incidences of threats, vandalism and violence reported. Civil rights activists believe that Muslims are now more vulnerable and suffer from religious prejudice. Many American Muslims want to remove the misunderstanding and suspicion that surrounds Islam. They are trying hard to convince to others that from their perspective at least there is no place in Islam for those who resort to violent acts of terrorism.

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Pray for the Muslims in the USA:

* Pray that the Church in America would awaken to the challenge of interceding and reaching out to American Muslims.

* Pray for Muslims in universities to grow in spiritual hunger to know God personally and to call out to Him through Jesus.

* Pray for those Muslims whose lives have been effected by the terrorist attacks of 11 September, that they would know God through the witness of true Christians.

* Pray for the conversion of the leaders of Muslim organisations and mosques.

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* Muslim-majority Countries or at least 50% Muslim.

Unless otherwise noted, these are July 2010 estimates.

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Country | Population | Percentage of Muslims

* Afghanistan | 28,395,716 | 99%
* Albania | 3,639,453 | 70%
* Algeria | 34,178,188 | 99%
* Azerbaijan | 8,238,672 | 93.4%
* Bahrain | 728,709 | 81.2%
* Bangladesh | 156,050,883 | 89.5%
Benin | 8,791,832 | 24.4%
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,613,414 | 40%
* Brunei | 388,190 | 67%
Bulgaria | 7,204,687 | 12.2%
* Burkina Faso | 15,746,232 | 50%
Cameroon | 18,879,301 | 20%
Central African Republic (CAR) | 4,511,488 | 15%
* Chad | 10,329,208 | 53.1%
China | 1,338,612,968 | 1-2%
* Comoros | 752,438 | 98%
Congo DR | 68,692,542 | 10%
Cote d'lvoire | 20,617,068 | 38.6%
Cyprus | 1,084,748 | 18%
* Djibouti | 724,622 | 94%
* Egypt | 78,866,635 | 90%
* Eritrea | 5,647,168 | 50%
Ethiopia | 85,237,338 | 32.8%
Fiji | 944,720 | 6.3%
France | 64,420,07 | 5-10%
* Gambia, The | 1,778,081 | 90%
Georgia | 4,615,807 | 10%
Germany | 82,329,758 | 3.7
Ghana | 23,887,812 | 15.9%
* Guinea | 10,057,975 | 85%
Guinea Bissau | 1,533,964 | 50%
Guyana | 752,940 | 7.2%
India | 1,156,897,766 | 13.4%
* Indonesia | 240,271,522 | 86.1% (2000 census)
* Iran | 66,429,284 | 98%
* Iraq | 28,945,569 | 97%
Israel | 7,233,701 | 16% (2004 census)
* Jordan | 6,269,285 | 92% (2001 census)
Kazakhstan | 15,399,437 | 47%
Kenya | 39,002,772 | 10%
* Kuwait | 2,692,526 | 85%
* Kyrgyzstan | 5,431,747 | 75%
* Lebanon | 4,017,095 | 59.7%
Liberia | 3,441,790 | 20%
* Libya | 6,324,357 | 97%
Macedonia | 2,066,718 | 33.3% (2002 census)
Madagascar | 20,653,556 | 7%
Malawi | 15,028,757 | 12.8%
Malaysia | 25,715,819 | 60.4%
* Maldives | 396,334 | 99%
* Mali | 13,443,225 | 90%
* Mauritania | 3,129,486 | 100%
Mauritius | 1,284,264 | 16.6%
* Mayott | 223,765 | 97%
Montenegro | 672,180 | 17.7% (BBC)
* Morocco | 31,285,174 | 98.7%
Mozambique | 21,669,278 | 17.8%
Myanmar (Burma) | 48,137,741 | 4%
Nepal | 28,563,377 | 4.2 (2001)
* Niger | 15,306,252 | 80%
* Nigeria | 149,229,090 | 50%
* Oman | 3,418,085 | 85%
* Pakistan | 174,578,558 | 95%
Philippines | 97,976,603 | 5%
* Qatar | 833,285 | 77.5% (2001 census)
Russia | 140,041,247 | 10-15%
Rwanda | 10,746,311 | 4.6% (2001)
* Saudi Arabia | 28,686,633 | 100%
* Senegal | 13,711,597 | 94%
Serbia | 7,379,339 (3.2%) + Kosovo - 1,804,838 (90%) (BBC)
* Sierra Leone | 5,132,138 | 60%
Singapore | 4,657,542 | 14.9% (2000 census)
* Somalia | 9,832,017 | 99%
Sri Lanka | 21,324,791 | 7.6%
* Sudan | 41,087,825 | 70%
Suriname | 481,267 | 19.6%
* Syria | 21,762,978 | 90%
* Tajikistan | 7,349,145 | 90% (2003 census)
Tanzania | 41,048,532 | 35%
Thailand | 65,998,436 | 4.6% (2000 census)
Togo | 6,031,808 | 20%
* Tunisia | 10,486,339 | 98%
* Turkey | 76,805,524 | 99.8%
* Turkmenistan | 4,884,887 | 89%
Uganda | 32,369,558 | 12.1% (2002 census)
* UAE (United Arab Emirates) | 4,798,491 | 96%
UK (United Kingdom) | 61,113,205 | 2.7% (2001 census)
USA (United States) | 307,212,123 | 1.7% (2002 census)
* Uzbekistan | 27,606,007 | 88%
Western Sahara | 405,210 | 99%
* Yemen | 22,858,238 | 99%

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Since 30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World began in 1992 we have prayed for most of these countries. (Follow the Links above for details.)

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Demographics:

One fifth of the world population is statistically Islam. Muslims are the majority in 52 nations (June 2008 estimates).

* 3-11 million Muslims in the Americas (estimates vary greatly)
- 5-8 million Muslims in Canada and the United States
- 1-3 million Muslims in Latin America

* 84 million Muslims in Europe (including Turkey)
- 10 million Muslims in Western Europe, mostly in the UK, France, Germany
- 7 million Muslims in the Balkans, mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania and Republic of Macedonia
- 67 million Muslims in Turkey

* 284 million Muslims in the Middle East or Arab League

* 254 million Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa

* 103 million Muslims in Central Asia
- 49 million Muslims in the former republics of the Soviet Union: Central Asia - in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan
- 26 million Muslims in Russia
- 28 million Muslims in Afghanistan

* 450 million Muslims in South Asia
- 156 million Muslims in Pakistan
- 127 million Muslims in Bangladesh
- 174 million Muslims in India

* 289 million Muslims in East Asia
- 30 million Muslims in China
- 209 million Muslims in Indonesia (the largest National Muslim community in the world)
- 30 million Muslims in the rest of South-East Asia, especially Malaysia and Brunei.
- Small populations in Japan, Mongolia, North Korea or the South Pacific

* Over 1.5 billion in total

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| · 936,269,259 million people or about 14% of the world's population live in 61 countries and territories throughout Africa.

Pray with us for these African countries. Muslims represent 41.3% of the population in Africa, growing at a rate of 2.5% per year (mainly as a result of having large families). Islam first spread from the Middle East to North Africa and then eventually towards the south. Islam is predominantly concentrated in North and Northeast Africa. For example, out of the 78 million people in the three nations of Northwest Africa (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), possibly only 50,000 are native believers in the Messiah. On our site you will see we have broken Africa down by region, Central (about 15 percent Muslim), East (about 29 percent Muslim), North (probably 89% Muslim), Southern (between 1 and 2 percent Muslim) and West Africa (about 54 percent Muslim).

Although we hear of many miracles and wonderful things happening in Africa there is also great persecution among many African Christians. As gulf-oil dollars help spread Islam we hear of many believers who become secret believers. Families often disown members who turn to the Messiah, confiscating their possessions. In some cases there are brutal beatings and even deaths as the type of Islam coming into Africa gets more dogmatic and controlling.

You can also search our site for Muslim People Groups such as: Beja, Dioula, Fulani, Gorane, Gypsies, Harar, Juba Arabs, Kabyle, Lebou, Maba, Myab, Nubian, Saharawi, Saho, Songhai, Soninke, Souss Berbers, Teda, Toucouleur, Tuaregs, Tuareg in Sahara, Worodougou, Yao and so forth.

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The largest and most populous continent or region is Asia. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area, or 29.4% of its land area, and it contains more than 60% of the world's population.

Most of the world's Muslims live in Asia. After Indonesia (240,271,522 | 86.1% Muslim), India (1,156,897,766 | 13.4% Muslim), Pakistan (174,578,558 | 95% Muslim) and Bangladesh (156,050,883 | 83% Muslim) have the world's highest Muslim populations. Islam spread to South Central and East Asia mostly through merchants and mystical Sufis.

We have several categories to include all Asian countries including Central Asia and the Caucasus, East Asia and South Central Asia. We also have subcategories for India and Indonesia.

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Middle East Population (estimate - 2009) (An often used version of Middle East, includes Cyprus and Egypt. In some cases, the Middle East is extended to include countries in North Africa with clear connection to Islam, like Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. We do not use the extended version on our site - check the Africa categories for more details.)

Bahrain: 728,709 | 81.2% Muslim
Iran: 66,429,284 | 98% Muslim
Iraq: 28,945,569 | 97% Muslim
Israel: 7,233,701 + 3,070,228 Palestinians | 16% Muslim (2004 census)
Jordan: 6,269,285 | 92% Muslim
Kuwait: 2,692,526 | 85% Muslim
Lebanon: 4,017,095 | 59.7% Muslim
Oman: 3,418,085 | 75% Muslim
Qatar: 833,285 | 77.5%
Saudi Arabia: 28,686,633 | 100% Muslim
Syria: 21,762,978 | 90% Muslim
Turkey | 76,805,524 | 99.8%
United Arab Emirates (UAE): 4,798,491 | 96% Muslim
Yemen: 22,858,238 | 99% Muslim

TOTAL Middle East Population: 278,553,314 million. 9 out of 10 Muslims in the Middle East don't know any Christians.

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The name Oceania is used because, unlike the other regional groupings, it is the Pacific ocean and adjacent seas rather than a continent that link the lands together. It includes some 25,000 islands and usually includes Australia depending on the geopolitical definition.

By current estimates, there are 500,000 Muslims in Oceania (340 000 in Australia, 36 000 in New Zealand, 62 500 in Fiji, 6 350 in New Caledonia, 2 000 in Papua New Guinea, 350 in Solomon islands, 200 in Vanuatu, 100 in Tonga, tiny numbers in Kiribati and Samoa.

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All the articles are from our "30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World" prayer guides.

30-Days International maintains a positive attitude toward Muslims. We are not interested in denigrating or criticizing them. Islam is not merely a religion or a philosophy. Islam concerns people. Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

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The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions including 35 independent countries. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.4% of its land area) and contain about 14% of the population.

South America has an area of 17,840,000 sq kilometer (6,890,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. In 2005, its population was estimated at more than 371,000,000.

North America's population was estimated at over 518,575,000 in early 2009 which includes Central America. (The USA and Canada population is around 340,699,331.) It is unclear just how many Muslims are represented in the America's and estimates vary considerably. Canada is thought to have 2% Muslim population out of a total of 33,487,208 and the USA is about 1% of a total of 307,212,123.

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Europe comprises 55 countries and territories; some 710,000,000, or about 11% of the world's population with probably 94 major languages. There are 12 countries with significant Muslim populations and another 5 with a well-established Islam presence. About 5% of the EU (25 countries in the European Union which alone have 21 official languages) identify themselves as Muslims. The U.N. estimates Europe will be 55% Muslim by 2040.

Here are some statistics:

Country | Population | Percentage of Muslims

Albania | 3,639,453 | 70%
Austria | 8,210,281 | 4.2%
Belarus | 9,648,533 | < 0.1%
Belguim | 10,414,336 | 3%
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,613,414 | 40%
Bulgaria | 7,204,687 | 12.2%
Croatia | 4,489,409 | 1.3% (2001 census)
Cyprus | 1,084,748 | 18%
Czech Republic | 10,211,904 | < 0.1% (2001 census)
Denmark | 5,500,510 | 2%
Estonia | 1,299,371 | 0.1% (2000 census)
Finland | 5,250,275 | 0.2%
France | 64,420,070 | 5 - 10%
Germany | 82,329,758 | 3.7%
Gibraltar | 28,796 | 4% (2001 census)
Greece | 10,737,428 | 1.3%
Hungary | 9,905,596 | 0.2% (2001 census)
Iceland | 306,694 | < 0.1% (2006 est)
Ireland | 4,203,200 | 0.5%
Italy | 58,126,212 | "small but growing" 0.2%
Kosovo | 1,804,838 | 89.6%
Latvia | 2,231,503 | < 0.1%
Lithuania | 3,555,179 | 0.1%
Luxembourg | 491,775 | 3%
Macedonia | 2,066,718 | 33.3%
Moldova | 4,320,748 | 0.5%
Montenegro | 672,180 | 17.7%
Netherlands | 16,715,999 | 5.8%
Norway | 4,660,539 | 1.8%
Poland | 38,482,919 | 0.3%
Portugal | 10,707,924 | 0.1%
Romania | 22,215,421 | 0.9%
Serbia | 7,379,339 | 3.2%
Slovakia | 5,463,046 | < 0.1%
Slovenia | 2,005,692 | 2.4%
Spain | 40,525,002 | 1%
Sweden | 9,059,651 | 2%
Switzerland | 7,604,467 | 4.3%
Ukraine | 45,700,395 | 1%
UK (United Kingdom) | 61,113,205 | 2.7%

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According to statistics from the U.N., Islam is now the worlds second largest religion after Christianity. The U.N. statistics state that the Islam annual growth rate of Islam is around 6.40% compared to 1.46% during the same time period for Christianity. Also according to these statistics, one in five people on the planet are Muslim (by birth or geographical reference).

Other statistics from the U.N.:

Islam in North America since 1989 increased 25%

Islam in Africa since 1989 increased 2.15%

Islam in Asia since 1989 increased 12.57%

Islam in Europe since 1989 increased 142.35%

Islam in Latin America since 1989 decreased -4.73%

and Islam in Australia and Oceania / Pacific since 1989 increased 257.01%

Major Religions of the World

Christian - 2,038,905,000 - 32% (dropping)
Roman Catholics - 1,076,951,000
Protestants - 349,792,000
Orthodox - 217,522,000
Anglicans - 81,663,000
Other - 537,135,000
Muslims - 1,226,403,000 - 21% (growing)
Hindus - 828,130,000 - 13% (stable)
Chinese folk religionists - 389,543,000 - 6%
Buddhists - 364,014,000 - 6% (stable)
Sikhs - 23,821,000 - < 1%
Jews - 14,535,000 - < 1%

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