Costa Rica

General Information

  • Area: 51,100 sq km
  • Population: 5,094,118 (2020 estimate)
  • Capital: San Jose
  • Main Religion: Roman Catholic(official)/(52%), Protestant(25%), No religion(17%)…
  • Official Language: Spanish

Challenges for Prayer

  1. Pray for the Church that fail to disciple people well. Pray for the Christians and churches not to fall away in difficult times.

  2. Pray that some peoples such as Amerindian tribes, the Mekitelyu African Caribbean community, the Chinese population might see indigenous and biblical churches among them.

  3. Two-thirds of Costa Ricans are under age 30. Pray for sustained outreach from Christian student and youth ministries (IFES, Cru, and others).

Source: Molly Wall, Pray for the World, 2015