Ramadan - Day 05 - Kabardino-Balkaria

30-Days of Prayer for the Muslim World
- Ramadan Day 05

The “Mountain Tartars” of Kabardino- Balkaria

Population: 760,000

Balkars 8%
Karachay 43%
Russians 33%.

The Balkars are a Turkic people, living in the central Caucasus region of southern Russia. The Russians used the name of “Mountain Tartars” or “Mountain Turks” for all of the Turko-Tatar people groups of the Caucasus. In 1942/43 numerous Balkars joined the German Army and were combined with other Turkish people groups in the so-called volunteer “Turkestan” division.

In 1991 the autonomous Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria was declared. They have significant Islamic roots and it is among the poorest regions of the Russian Federation. Widespread unemployment and religious fanaticism are a potentially explosive mixture in the republic, but compared to the neighboring republics, Kabardino-Balkaria has been considered relatively stable until now.

Often young men from Kabardino-Balkaria have been involved in terrorist incidents. The extremist organization “Jaruk” is considered the inner core of recent terrorist conflict. The Chechen gang leader Ruslan Gelajev, who was later killed, supposedly founded this clandestine group in 2002. These terrorist fighters want to introduce the Islamic sharia law in the Northern Caucasus.

Let’s Pray:

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* Pray for peace for the whole region.

* May God’s protection and blessing rest on the small numbers of Christians among the Balkars.

* Pray for reconciliation between Russians and Caucasus peoples.

* May God’s hope and light shine for the Balkars and Kabardino-Balkaria.


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