Bolivia faces significant challenges as organized crime undermines its democratic foundations. A hub for cocaine production and trafficking, the country struggles with pervasive corruption that compromises its judiciary, law enforcement, and political systems. There are systemic vulnerabilities, including politically influenced judicial appointments, enabling narcotraffickers to exploit weak institutions. This corruption erodes public trust, fueling a cycle of impunity and democratic fragility.
One stark example of corruption is Bolivia’s reliance on coca growers in the Chapare region, closely linked to drug trafficking. This relationship fosters a “non-aggression pact” between narcotraffickers and the government, creating a precarious balance that could collapse if efforts are made to curb illegal activity. The judiciary is plagued by inefficiency and political interference, allowing criminals like Sebastian Marset, a notorious trafficker, to operate freely for extended periods.
Compounding these issues are economic distortions caused by illicit financial flows, which bypass taxation and inflate markets, further marginalizing ordinary citizens. Weak oversight of borders and public procurement processes exacerbates Bolivia’s struggles to maintain transparency and accountability. These dynamics jeopardize democratic principles, leaving the Bolivian people vulnerable to exploitation and disenfranchisement.
Urgent reforms are needed, including strengthening law enforcement, enhancing judicial independence, and fostering transparency. International cooperation is critical, particularly in intelligence sharing, legislative reform, and capacity building for law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies. Combating organized crime requires addressing its root causes, such as poverty and inequality, to prevent democratic regression and build a foundation of justice and accountability.
As Bolivia grapples with these challenges, Christians are called to pray for the nation’s leaders, the protection of vulnerable communities, and the restoration of integrity in governance.
Prayer
Lord, we lift up Bolivia in prayer. Bring wisdom to its leaders, justice for its people, and renewal to its democratic institutions. Amen.
Bible Verse
“Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” — Amos 5:24
More: https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Illicit-Economys-Impact-on-Democracy-Case-Studies-in-Bolivia-and-Ecuador.pdf
Use these prayer pointers that the IPC Latin America Prayer Council are using through 2025:
CONTINENTAL PRAYER POINTS - CLAMOR 2025
- Pray for unity
- Pray for the uprising of godly leadership in Latino América (season for Seating / Reseating governmental offices)
- Pray for the transition of structures in our churches - from pyramidal churches to apostolic centers - in order to birth long-term spiritual movements. Focus: Culture of prayer.
- Pray to return to the original design / and fulfilment of the calling for each nation.
- Prayer for Israel with ICEJ monthly prayer points. Transfer of Latin American embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
- Pray for the nations to identify/build watchmen and strategic teams across the 7 Areas of cultural influence.
- Pray for the uprising of the Next Generation: Focus on children (Josiah Network & youth movement- UPRISING)
- Pray for the coalition of anti- globalization nations in our continent. Focus: Trade, impact of immigration.
Global Day of Prayer – 28/29 January 2025 – We invite you and your families, contacts and networks to join us for a Global Day of Prayer starting on January 28th / 29th 2025!
Across 24 hours, we will worship and pray where we are, together and online – however we are able.
Our aim is to dedicate time around the throne, around the world and around the clock for worship-saturated prayers for personal, local and global breakthrough! – with a special focus on the Buddhist world.
This is the first of 4 worldwide days of prayer for 2025! – we will also be praying for the Hindu Jewish and Hindu peoples during significant times in their calendars.
Will you join us on Chinese New Year to pray together, exalting Jesus Christ as King throughout the Buddhist world, asking the Lord of the Harvest to send forth laborers to every unreached people group in 12 key cities and nations?!
The Global Day of Prayer starts Jan 29th 2025 at 1:00am (Beijing UTC+8)
(JAN 28th: 12PM New York | 7PM Jerusalem. JAN 29th: 2AM SEOUL, 4AM Sydney)
CLICK TO JOIN - Zoom Meeting ID – 84602907844 Passcode 32223
In the lead up to the Global Day of Prayer, we will be praying for 21 days - for breakthrough across 21 key cities and nations in the Buddhist World.
The 21 days runs from January 9th through to 29th, 2025.
We will be using some specially written adults and children’s prayer guides to help us focus our prayers.
The prayer guides conclude with the Global Day of Prayer involving millions of people offline and online.
The Children’s Prayer Guide, prepared by 2BC includes inspirational thoughts from Justin Gunawan, daily themes to build children’s faith, a 2BC Song and action points.
More info and prayer guides are HERE
2 Billion Children – is a campaign conceived by IPC’s Senior Advisor and Exec Member, Tom Victor.
The vision to see the 2 billion children across our world empowered to share the message of God’s love with their friends and families.
Tom has teamed up with Ann Low and several others who are raising awareness for this exciting project which is gaining momentum.
We would like to bring you Tom’s latest newsletter that tells the updated story of 2BC!
Download the Great Commission Coalition Newsletter HERE!
More: www.2bc.world/
Prayer Walks During Kumbh Mela 2025: South Asia Regional Prayer Council
South Asia, home to 2 billion people, has the greatest concentration of unreached and unsaved individuals in the world. Of this population, 969 million people, more than 80% are Hindus. They are deeply religious but are yet to know the true Saviour.
Among the region’s most spiritually significant events is Kumbh Mela, a mass Hindu pilgrimage where millions gather at the sacred Ganges River. Rooted in mythological beliefs, the event commemorates the legend of demi-gods who lost their strength due to a curse, seeking restoration through the waters.
In 2025, the Kumbh Mela will take place in Prayagraj, formerly known as Allahabad, from January to March.
Central to the pilgrimage is the Triveni Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers, where pilgrims perform sacred rituals and seek purification. The immense gathering, featuring millions of devotees, can be both overwhelming and awe-inspiring to first-time visitors.
Recognizing the profound spiritual significance of this event, International Prayer Connect’s South Asia Regional Prayer Council is organizing a number of on-site prayer walks during Kumbh Mela.
From January 26-30, 2025, a dedicated group of intercessors and prayer mobilizers will visit Prayagraj and nearby Varanasi. These prayer warriors will walk through the throngs, seeking God’s intervention for South Asia’s spiritual transformation.
Their prayers will focus on the millions participating in the Kumbh Mela, interceding for their salvation and freedom from spiritual darkness. The team aims to invite God’s presence into these spiritually charged locations, praying for breakthroughs that can ripple across the region.
This initiative embodies the call to stand in the gap for South Asia, declaring the truth of Christ in the midst of one of the world’s largest religious gatherings. The Prayer Walk is an opportunity for believers to unite in faith and petition heaven for a harvest among the unreached during this significant time.
For those unable to join on-site, IPC encourages you to intercede with us during this critical period.
Jericho Plan Prayer Guide
Our partners in India have prepared a well-illustrated Jericho Plan Prayer Guide for the event, available for download HERE
We pleased to bring you an intro and summary of the prayer pointers:
The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, a mass Hindu pilgrimage anticipated to attract over 22 million participants at Prayagraj, is a deeply spiritual event where pilgrims seek cleansing from sin through holy baths at the Sangam.
Recognizing the opportunity for intercession, the Jericho Plan calls for focused prayer to break spiritual barriers and share the Gospel with love and understanding.
Key prayer areas include: opening hearts to Christ’s truth, clarity on salvation, divine encounters, acts of Christ-like kindness, strengthening local believers, and lasting spiritual impact beyond the event. As millions disperse, the goal is to sow seeds of faith that ripple throughout India, trusting God to bring transformation akin to the walls of Jericho falling.
Key Topics / Prayer Pointers:
- Open Hearts: Pray for spiritual barriers to be removed and for pilgrims to encounter Christ’s love.
- Understanding Salvation: Intercede for clarity on salvation beyond rituals and works.
- Divine Encounters: Ask for divine appointments and Holy Spirit-led interactions.
- Christ-like Kindness: Pray for love and compassion to open conversations about faith.
- Strengthening Local Believers: Lift up Christian communities in Uttar Pradesh for boldness, wisdom, and protection.
- Lasting Impact: Pray for seeds of faith sown at the event to bear lasting fruit across homes and communities.
New Year's Day - Sunrise Prayer Relay
Wherever you are at sunrise on New Year's Day, join believers all around the world praying for revival and transformation in the nations!
We invite our brothers and sisters in Christ, prayer groups, and churches to join us all around the world to pray at sunrise on New Year's Day.
Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation. (2 Cor 6:2)
On New Year’s Day over the past few years, people in over a thousand locations in over 70 nations participated in the Sunrise Prayer Relay and we are believing for even more in 2025.
Your prayer gathering could be at a public location like a hill, lookout, bridge, or public landmark, at a church in your city or town, or you can also pray privately in your home, these prayer gatherings at sunrise around the world generate a synchronized 24-hour global prayer relay.
We suggest that you arrive 15 minutes before your local sunrise time to pray for around 30 minutes or longer if you feel led.
We encourage you to pray together aloud as the sun rises and make a declaration that "Jesus is Lord" of your life, your family, your region, your nation, and the nations.
This year we feel to strongly encourage you to have communion together and celebrate the victory that Jesus has won through His body broken and blood poured out at the cross.
We also want to encourage you to contend in prayer for souls to be saved in your nation and pray for our unsaved friends and family to know Jesus in 2025.
God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (2 Pet 3:9)
So let’s pray in agreement with His will and contend for whole nations to come to salvation.
Your group might like to include praise and worship in your time of prayer, you could also include a time of fellowship, and we also encourage you to share the gospel with others who have come to watch the sunrise.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. (John 17:22-23)
To register your participation and receive the prayer resources and updates please visit www.sunriseprayerrelay.com/registration
This year we will not publish the public locations, we encourage you to promote your own public gatherings locally.
If you post photos or videos on social media, please use the hashtag #SunrisePrayerRelay and/or email to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so we can share.
Let’s awaken the dawn together in 2025 with prayer and declare "Jesus is Lord" over the nations.
More info Here: https://www.sunriseprayerrelay.com/
Links to all IPC Projects:
https://linktr.ee/ipcprayer
110 Cities Prayer
www.110cities.com
Global Family 24-7 Prayer Room
https://www.globalfamily24-7prayer.org/
Prayer Covenant for Children Mobile App
theprayercovenant.org/mobileapp/
Interseed House of Prayer App
https://prod.global.interseed.io/link/groups?id=146
New Years Day Sunrise Prayer Relay
New Years Day Sunrise Prayer Relay
New Year’s Day Revival Prayer Hour
1st January 10-11am GMT
https://worldprayer.org.uk/events/revive25-prayer-hour/
21 Days of Prayer for Buddhist World
Jan 9 – Jan 29 2025
Adult Guide | Childrens Guide
Global Day of Prayer – Buddhist World – 28/29 Jan
More Info & Guide
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Our vision is to see the 110 most unreached cities in the world reached with the Gospel, praying for thousands of Christ-exalting churches to be planted among them!
We believe prayer is key! To this end we are reaching out in faith to cover this outreach with the powerful prayers of 110 million believers - for breakthrough, praying around the throne, around the clock and around the globe!
WILL YOU JOIN US?!
Watch the video invitation to pray with 110 million people for 110 strategic cities! (Psalm 110:3)
Here’s 3 ways you can get involved with 110 Cities!
- Pray once a day!
- Join our 4 Days of Prayer - Next one is January 28th/29th – praying for the Buddhist World on Chinese New Year.
- Pray using the interactive Map
The 110cities.com website is chock full of resources to use in whatever way suits you... browse the 110 Cities and their prayer points https://www.110cities.com/cities/ along with the 24-7 worship and prayers of our Global Family 24-7 Prayer Room.
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