Ecumenical Prayer Cycle to Cover all Regions of the World
The following prayer plan allows you to pray in concert with Christians of every denomination all over the globe to cover every region in prayer during the course of a year. This is an outreach of the World Council of Churches. You can find specific requests for each country on this link. Here is the prayer list:
Week # | Countries * | Dates in 2012 |
Week 1 | Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories | 1-7 January |
Week 2 | Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Iran, Iraq | 8-14 January |
Week 3 | Cyprus, Greece, Turkey | 15-21 January |
Week 4 | Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia | 22-28 January |
Week 5 | Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden | 29 January – 4 February |
Week 6 | Ireland, United Kingdom | 5-11 February |
Week 7 | Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands | 12-18 February |
Week 8 | Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta | 19-25 February |
Week 9 | Germany, France | 26 February – 4 March |
Week 10 | Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino | 5-10 March |
Week 11 | Myanmar, Thailand | 11-17 March |
Week 12 | Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam | 18-24 March |
Week 13 | China, Hong Kong, Macao | 25-31 March |
Week 14 | Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore | 1-7 April |
Week 15 | East Timor, Indonesia, Philippines | 8-14 April |
Week 16 | Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan | 15-21 April |
Week 17 | Djibouti, Somalia | 22-28 April |
Week 18 | Eritrea, Ethiopia | 29 April – 5 May |
Week 19 | Sudan, Uganda | 6-12 May |
Week 20 | Kenya, Tanzania | 13-19 May |
Week 21 | Malawi, Zambia | 20-26 May |
Week 22 | Botswana, Zimbabwe | 27 May – 2 June |
Week 23 | Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland | 3-9 June |
Week 24 | Angola, Mozambique | 10-16 June |
Week 25 | Brazil | 17-23 June |
Week 26 | Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay | 24-30 June |
Week 27 | Bolivia, Chile, Peru | 1-7 July |
Week 28 | Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela | 8-14 July |
Week 29 | Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama | 15-21 July |
Week 30 | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico | 22- 28 July |
Week 31 | The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago | 29 July – 4 August |
Week 32 | Canada, USA | 5-11 August |
Week 33 | Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia | 12-18 August |
Week 34 | The Pacific islands: Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa and the French Overseas Territories of New Caledonia (Kanaky) and French Polynesia (Tahiti) | 19-25 August |
Week 35 | Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania | 26 August – 1 September |
Week 36 | Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia | 2-8 September |
Week 37 | Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia | 9-15 September |
Week 38 | Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania | 16-22 September |
Week 39 | Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine | 23-29 September |
Week 40 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia | 30 September – 6 October |
Week 41 | Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan | 7-13 October |
Week 42 | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal | 14-20 October |
Week 43 | India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka | 21-27 October |
Week 44 | The Indian Ocean islands: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives | 28 October – 3 November |
Week 45 | Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda | 4-10 November |
Week 46 | Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sao Tomé and Principe | 11-17 November |
Week 47 | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea | 18-24 November |
Week 48 | Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger | 25 November – 1 December |
Week 49 | Liberia, Sierra Leone | 2-8 December |
Week 50 | Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal | 9-15 December |
Week 51 | Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo | 16-22 December |
Week 52 | Ghana, Nigeria | 23-29 December |