For more information see the Bangladesh profile.

The People's Republic of Bangladesh formerly known as East Pakistan, occupies the delta and floodplains of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. One of the world's poorest nations, Bangladesh has little intrinsic hope that the poverty will ever be substantially alleviated.

Revulsion at the cruelty of Pakistan's repression in the name of Islam in the 1971 civil war temporarily weakened Bangladeshi loyalty to Islam, giving new opportunities for the gospel. The openness (and even responsiveness), in some areas to innovative methods of evangelism is encouraging. But few nations in the world have such a large number of people who remain largely untouched by the Gospel.