When it is time for a Wodaabe woman to give birth, all the older women of the village will gather in the house to await the news of the baby’s gender. If the baby is a girl, women will reserve the daughter to marry their...
Currently, the legal marriageable age in Niger is 18 for girls, and yet according to UNICEF, Niger has the highest prevalence rate of child marriage in the world. Approximately 76% of girls are married before the age of 18 and 28% marry before they are 15 years old. Pray for workers...
The Wodaabé place a high value on physical beauty and believe themselves to be attractive people. The highest priority for Wodaabé parents is to have pretty children. In some cases, a man who is not considered to be attractive will share his wife with another...
According to joshuaproject.net, there are 13,598,000 Hausa living in Niger, and only 1.6% of them are evangelical Christians. Hausa beliefs are typically Islam intermingled with animism. They believe in spirits and participate in traditional rituals including sacrificial offerings to the spirits and to the spirit...
The Fulani people are cattle herders. It is commonly known that they love their cows more than their family. If it came between their wife or child eating, or taking medicine, or their cow, the favor will always fall to the cow. Pray that they...
Pray for opportunities for women to receive literacy training so that they can in turn help teach their children to read. There are many regions throughout Niger where there are no educational opportunities, so a large majority of the population remains illiterate. Pray for the...
The concepts of honor and shame are extremely important to the Nigerien Muslim population. Many do not even want to consider that Christ is the Son of God because they do not want to bring shame upon their family or face rejection. However, those who...
Psalm 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.” Pray for the children who daily beg in the streets of Niamey. Pray that the Lord will satisfy their needs and meet them...
The religion of Islam began with Muhammad having a dream, therefore, dreams and visions are highly respected among Muslims and are viewed as a vehicle of divine revelation. Across Niger, many Muslims are having dreams and visions of meeting Jesus. Pray that Jesus would appear...
According to Unicef’s State of the World’s Children 2023 report, the number of live births per woman in Niger is 6.8, which is higher than any other country in the world. The worldwide average is 2.4 live births per woman; in the United States, there...