Every year during the six weeks of Lent Christians in Ireland join together in prayer for six Christian prisoners. In Lent 2025, we’ll be praying for the prisoners pictured beginning on Sunday 9 March (the first Sunday of Lent).
Top Row (left to right): Zafar Bhatti (Pakistan), Mina Khajavi (Iran), Choi Chun-gil (North Korea)
Bottom Row (left to right): Haile Naizghe (Eritrea), Fu Xuanjuan (China), Nay Y Blang (Vietnam)
For each prisoner we publish a Prayer Profile which includes details of their arrest and sentence, their family and church, latest news and prayer points. The Prayer Profiles will be available on this website, via our weekly email and on Social Media.
Prayer Profiles are also featured in the Spring issue of Church in Chains magazine which you can order by completing this form. The details of the six prisoners will also be contained in a PowerPoint presentation to be used during the prayer slot in church.
The Spring issue contains a Junior Lent Prayer Project for Sunday schools, children’s clubs and families. It features the same six prisoners in an age-appropriate version of their stories and a prayer for each one, so we can share the importance of remembering the persecuted church with the children in our lives.