Macau

Macau [also spelled Macao], a Special Administrative region [SAR] of China, was formerly an overseas territory of Portugal and a major trading Port. It is on the south coast of China on the Pearl River estuary.

Population

• Population: 456,989 [UK: 60,609,153]
• Density: 16,068 per sq km [UK: 250 per sq km]
• 95.7% ethnically Chinese [largely Cantonese speakers]
• 1% Macanese [Eurasian]
• 3.3% Other [Portuguese, Filipino, Thai, Russian, other]

Religions

• Buddhist/Chinese 32.69%
• Non-religious/other 60%
• Christian 7.31% [Roman Catholic 5.18% Protestant 2.13%

[Statistics: Operation World]
There is no state religion.

Opportunities

Openings for service with OMF include:

• Long-term work in all aspects of church life.
• Short-term English-teaching placements.