Caribbean

The Caribbean comprises 28 countries and territories scattered across thousands of islands between Central America and South America, from Cuba and Jamaica to small territories such as Aruba, Curaçao and Anguilla. It is a region shaped by a blend of African, European and Indigenous Taíno heritage, a result of the trafficking of enslaved people brought to work on colonial plantations.

Colonial diversity left deep religious marks: alongside French and Spanish Catholicism and British and Dutch Protestantism, Afro-Caribbean religions born from the blending of African traditions and Catholicism survive. Evangelicals account for 16.7% of the Caribbean population, with considerable variation from one island to another.

Despite its many countries, the region is home to 61 people groups, of which 9 are still considered unreached. Of the 128 languages spoken in the Caribbean, including Creole languages, English, French, Spanish and Dutch, 40 still have no part of the Bible translated, many of them Creoles spoken by specific communities on a single island.

Pray for this archipelago of multiple identities, where each island carries its own history of faith and resilience, that the gospel may also reach Creole languages and communities still without Scripture in their own speech.