There are around 40.3 million slaves in the world.
Picture yourself owned by someone else, used at their command for no pay. There are around 40.3 million slaves in the world. Around 8 million are trapped in India, 4 million in China, 2.6 million in North Korea and over a million in Nigeria, Iran, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (globalslaveryindex.org).
Every day in America we use some of the 145 billion dollars-worth of products considered as likely “at risk” of having been made by slaves. These slave-made items especially include chocolate, electronics, clothing, cannabis, diamonds, and pornography. Often slaves are treated as disposable since they cost on average only 90 dollars (freetheslaves.net).
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It is especially awful to think of children doing a job they cannot leave and being paid nothing for their hard labor. About 25% of the slaves in the world are children. Besides slavery, about 168 million children live in homes so poor they have to trudge off to work instead of study or play (ilo.org International Labour Organization).
Because of poverty and war, approximately 1 in 10 boys is not in school and the numbers are a lot higher for girls. (unicef.org). This adds up to 263 million children and adolescents who are not in school, 60% of youth worldwide! It is the worst in sub-Sahara Africa (UNESCO).
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Child Laborers
168 million children live in homes so poor they have to trudge off to work instead of study or play. Jesus pleads, Undo the heavy burdens!
Prostitution
1 in every 130 females is either in a forced marriage or in enslaved labor Jesus begs, Let the oppressed go free!
We typically think of muscular men serving as slaves, but 71 percent are females. As part of the human family, we must start thinking of them as our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters. In this socalled modern world 1 in every 130 females is either in a forced marriage or in enslaved labor.
Many times, that prison is a prostitute’s cell. (freetheslaves.net). 2 million children are trapped in prostitution (unicef.org). The average age of a trafficked child is between ages 12-14 (liberatechildren.org). Can we possibly imagine such horror?
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Approximately 1 in 7 Christians in the world suffers persecution. For 360 million of those it is significantly severe. The persecution of Christians continues to grow, rising 20% since 2014. The most violence is taking place in Sub-Saharan African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, but especially Nigeria. Of the 6,000 Christians killed for their faith around the world just in the last year, 79% was in Nigeria, caused by Jihadist violence. Though the numbers are less, Jews, Muslims, and even Atheists are also frequently persecuted.
While we choose between going to the beach or going to church, Christians in Afghanistan long for fellowship and open worship but know they would face certain death for their faith. While we may have several dusty Bibles sitting on our shelves, 50-70,000 Christians are imprisoned in North Korea without the word of God in their hands (Open Doors).
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Persecuted
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Approximately 1 in 7 Christians in the world suffers persecution Jesus implores, Break every yoke!
An estimated 100 million people are homeless, figuring out where they will sleep tonight. 1.6 billion lack adequate housing, perhaps wondering how to keep out the rain, the cold, or maybe a thief (stwr.org). The cities with the most homeless, from highest numbers down are: Manila, New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Mexico City, Jakarta, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Budapest, and Sao Paulo (Habitat.org).
Through war, natural disasters, and persecution, the numbers of displaced people continue to grow, now surpassing over a 120 million people forcibly displaced people. That’s 1 out of 78 of our worldwide neighbors who can no longer live in their home or have their children go to their school. The situations were so bad that 27.1 million of those had to flee their countries as refugees and 41% of them were children. Two thirds come just from the hardest hit countries of Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Ukraine (unhcr.org).
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1 out of 10 people in the world (815 million) do not have enough food to sustain them. This isn’t just being hungry. It is malnutrition serious enough to cause dizziness, fatigue, stunting, delay in mental development, proneness to disease, and eventually death.
Mothers and their daughters suffer the most, making up 70% of the 1.3 billion people who struggle with severe poverty (worldhunger.org).
The average American spends close to $3,000 a year just on eating out. 3 out of 12 people in our world have to live on that to cover all their food, water, rent, and everything else. That’s about $3.20 a day per person.
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The Hungry
1 out of 10 people in the world do not have enough food to sustain them Jesus demands, Share your bread with the hungry!
The most dangerous place in the world is the womb. Abortion is the leading cause of death in the world at 73 million every year (Guttmacher.org). 2,363 babies are aborted every day in America (liveaction.org). 4 out of 10 pregnancies worldwide end up in abortion (worldometers.info). It is estimated that over 100 million girls have been wiped out through gendercide—because a boy was wanted instead (thelifeinstitute.net).
One study showed that about one in four women said their abortion was “unwanted or coerced” (24%). 60% would have preferred to give birth if they had received either more emotional support or had more financial security.
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There are more than 149 million orphans in the world who have lost one or more parents (UNICEF.org). In 2021 alone 14.9 million became orphans because of AIDS-related causes, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Many other children live on the streets because of homelessness, extreme poverty, and conflict at home. These children are extremely vulnerable.
Around 117,000 children in America are in need of adoption. About 437,000 children are in the foster care system (adoption.org). The three countries that provide the largest numbers of international adoption are China, India, and South Korea.
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Without Health Care
13,800 children under ve die each day from preventable causes. Jesus deeply desires that Your healing shall spring forth speedily!
Three diseases especially kill—malaria, TB, and AIDS. These killers are mostly controlled in the richer parts of the world where the best medicines are more readily available. A low-cost treatment for TB can prolong a person’s life around 20 years.
A huge number of children under five will die today from preventable causes, things we could stop, like diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia, birth complications, and hunger. How many? Approximately 13,800 precious lives. Picture 35 Boeing 777 jumbo jets crashing today, and again tomorrow, and the next day. (unicef.org). We can learn where our help is most needed, country by country, in The State of the World’s Children.
Just because we live in a wealthier country, we are likely to live 18 years longer than the poor who lack health care.
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Approximately 773 million people are illiterate and the majority are women (UNESCO). The lack of literacy can greatly impact a person’s ability to get work or provide opportunities for their family.
“The single most significant thing that can be done to cure extreme poverty is this: protect, educate, and nurture girls and women, and provide them with equal rights and opportunities, educationally, economically, and socially” (The Hole in Our Gospel, Richard Stearns 156-157).
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Illiterate
Approximately 773 million people are illiterate, the majority are women Jesus entreats, Extend your soul to the hungry!
Abused
A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds in the USA. Jesus beseeches, Take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking
It is estimated that 1 in 3 women around the world have been subjected to physical or sexual violence, mostly by their partners and especially in lowerincome areas (UN Women).
A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds in the USA. Added up in one year those children could fill ten football stadiums. The abuse of children physically, emotionally, or sexually makes a significant impact on their potential for physical and mental illnesses and a decreased lifespan (ChildHelp.org).
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Anxiety disorders affect millions of people, including approximately 40 million in the US. Only about one third get any treatment (ADAA—Anxiety and Depression Association of America).
1 in 20 suffer depression worldwide. Depression can lead to suicide which is the fourth leading cause of death among 15-29-year-olds. (World Health Organization). Worldwide about 800,000 people will die from suicide this next year if someone does not help them stop.
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Anxious or Depressed 1 in 20 suffer depression worldwide. Jesus appeals, Satisfy the afflicted soul!
Living Risky
Smoking kills 8 million people worldwide every year
Jesus longs to Strengthen your bones!
Heart disease is a terrible killer in our world, responsible for 1 out of every 6 deaths.
Smoking killed 8 million people worldwide and 1.2 million of those were by second-hand smoke.
Someone dies somewhere in the world from diabetes every 5 seconds and the numbers are increasing.
Alcohol use kills 3 million people annually, plus hurts millions more in many ways (ncadd.org).
Over 165 million Americans abuse illicit and illegal substances (recovered.org).
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A rectangle called the 10/40 Window has been drawn across the map of North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Southeast Asia to help us picture the home of the poorest of the poor who are for the most part also the most unreached.
3.26 billion people in thousands of distinctly different people groups that live there have between 0 and 2% evangelical Christians.
Only 4-8% of missionaries are being sent to the places of greatest need (JoshuaProject.net).
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Unreached
3.26 billion people live without a Christian witness in the 10/40 Window. Most are very poor. Jesus commissions, Build the old waste places! You’re Invited!
Without a Bible
At least 1,680 languages need Bible translation Jesus directs, Raise up the foundations of many generations!
The full Bible has been translated in 724 languages, which is only 9.7% of all languages.
However, those 724 languages are read by 80% of all people.
The New Testament has been translated in 1,617 languages covering another 11% of the people.
Wycliffe Global Alliance estimates that at least 1,680 other languages need Bible translation.
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An extremely large amount of people do not have adequate water for their basic needs. 1 in 4 people in our world do not have ready access to clean drinking water and 1 in 2 do not have clean sanitation services. During the pandemic, while we continued to water our lawns and flush our toilets with clean drinking water, 3 out of 10 households in the world could not even wash their hands with soap and water (unicef.org).
So how do they survive? As Americans purchase around 50 billion water bottles each year, over “3 million children and nearly 14 million women walk more than 30 minutes to collect water,” frequently through dangerous territory and often more than once a day (worldvision.org).
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Thirsty
1 in 4 people in our world do not have ready access to clean drinking water. Jesus promises, You shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail!
Hindus and Buddhists
86% of Buddhists and Hindus have never known a Christians—out of over a billion Hindus and a half billion Buddhists. Jesus said, You shall be called the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In!
There are approximately 1.2 billion Hindus in the world. Hinduism is the primary religion in the three countries of India, Nepal, and Mauritius with millions also in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. There are also 2.5 million in the United States.
Countries with over 50% Buddhists include Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Laos, and Mongolia. China has the largest numbers at around 254 million. The United States has over 4 million. There are at least a half billion Buddhists in the world.
86% of Buddhists and Hindus have never known a Christian.
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In the world there are over 2 billion Muslims with the largest numbers in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. The smaller country called Maldives is 100% Muslims. Only 13% of Muslims know a Christian. 1 out of a 100 people in the United States is a Muslim.
There are about 15 million Jews in the world with Israel having around 7 million and the United States 6 million. Roughly 1 out of 10 people living in New York is Jewish.
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Muslims and Jews
The world has approximately 2 billion Muslims and 15 million Jews. 1 out of 100 in the US is Muslim and 2 out of 100 is Jewish. Jesus predicted, You shall be called the Repairer of the Breach!
Compromised
Over 2 billion people claim to be Christians but many don’t follow Jesus’ commands or example. Jesus invites all to let Him write His law on their heart & call the Sabbath a delight
Over 2 billion people claim to be Christians but many don’t follow Jesus’ commandments or example. Statistics show that such a merely nominal religion negatively impacts a person’s life.
On the other hand, more and more people are learning the truths about the Sabbath and the joy of keeping God’s commandments through the power of Jesus our advocate who serves as our high priest in heaven. In 2020 there was approximately 21.7 million Seventh-day Adventists in the world. Their work is established in 212 of the 235 countries and areas recognized by the United Nations. It sounds like a lot but that is 1 Seventhday Adventist for every 364 people in the world, with various unreached areas have a much smaller percentage than others.
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