The Czech Mate

Jason & Andrea Morrison — Czech Republic

A young Czech prays during the 5th annual national youth conference in Brno, Czech

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The Czech Republic was once a great center of Christianity, yet today the story is completely different, as the Czech Republic is now the most atheistic of all the old iron curtain countries.  However, we know that God is a redeeming God, who desires to transform this country from an un-reached people into a believing  nation.

     In the 10-13-05 edition of its online magazine, Christianity Today wrote:

 

Common wisdom has it that the Czechs are a nation of atheists, with alcoholics outnumbering evangelicals and more believers in UFOs than in God—and this isn't far from the truth. Census data from 1991 and 2001 show that in the decade after communism, the percentage of Czechs who identified as atheist surged from 40 to 60 percent, and a June 2005 Eurobarometer survey from the European Union shows that only 19 percent of Czechs believe in a god. . . . [the Czech Magazine “Kvety” shows 10% in Bohemia  and  20% in Moravia believe that a god could exist.]

 

According to the Czech Evangelical Alliance, in 2000 there were 545 evangelical congregations in the Czech Republic.  The number of Czechs who claimed affiliation with an evangelical church in the 2001 census is 31,299, [0.3% of the population] which means that an average of about 60 people attend each congregation. Though small, these churches have a sense of excitement about the future.