Prayercast | India

With a population of over one billion people dispersed throughout 4,635 distinct people groups, speaking over 1,600 languages, and believing in at least twelve different official religions, India is proud to maintain relative unity amongst such rich diversity.

India can also boast about being one of the world's top ten industrialized nations. Yet its population growth rises as fast as its economic growth, and with seventy percent of its people dependent on agriculture and a sixty one percent literacy rate (only one in three women can read), its people suffer under one of the world's lowest per capita income levels.

However, God is at work from the small, traditional Indian villages to the gargantuan cosmopolitan cities.

Radio broadcasts in the northern regions reach and disciple illiterate and isolated Christians throughout the week who need to walk three miles to reach the nearest church.

Gospel tracts, which cost less than a penny to produce, fuel a church movement in Himachal Pradesh.

Small women's fellowship groups faithful in prayer and fasting report healing miracles and an upsurge in conversions in small Assam villages.

In Delhi, where over half of the population lives in large slums filled with pollution, disease, crime and hopelessness, orphans raised in Christian orphanages dedicate their lives to Christ and proceed to witness in desperate neighborhoods and lead hope-filled churches.

But as Christ and the gospel of peace defeat and replace powerless superstition, age-old tradition and satanic strongholds, the enemy resists.

Christians face violent persecution in almost every prefecture and converts are threatened with loosing their status, jobs homes and lives. Poverty, cultural barriers, illiteracy, religious opposition and a rigid class system pose tremendous obstacles to the gospel. Yet, dedicated Indians empowered by the Holy Spirit and made powerful by the grace, peace and strength of Christ are and will continue to reach the smallest hamlet and the mightiest city.

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[Prayercast]

Thanks for your comment, @Rward783. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) It may sound exclusive, but we didn't say it. Jesus did.  There is only one way, and it's through Jesus Christ.

[Prayercast]

Hi, @stenivan27.  The music track is an untitled original. Not sure if the hindi vocal has a title. Will look into it.

[Prayercast]

Thanks, @bookchick39! The music is an original by Michael Thompson of OneWay Ministries. Parts of it were also used on a track called "His Praise Goes On" on an album called "Shine."

[Rward783]

This im ok with him loving christ but it is wrong for him to say the Hindus, buddhist, jains and Sikhs are lost because their truth is different for them plus their not harming anyone except for some extreamist musslims and hindus

[stenivan27]

Do you know what is the titled of the song in Hindi that was played in the video?

[bookchick39]

Wow, this is beautiful. Our pastor played this video at church yesterday. Where can I find the music used for it? Thank you for sharing!