Spaniards of Angola (PGID: PG015206)

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The Spaniards of Angola

The Spaniards of Angola, numbering approximately 18,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Southern European people whose culture has been shaped by the interaction of Iberian, Roman, Visigothic, Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions, as well as centuries of regional development within the Iberian Peninsula They are an Diaspora people, with Spaniard as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Spanish people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism. They primarily speak Spanish.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: Angola
People Cluster: Spanish
Primary Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Primary Religion(s): Roman Catholicism
Population: 18,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG015206
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Roman Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

92%

Roman Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Spanish
Language Family: Indo-European

100%

Spanish Speakers

Media Resources in Spanish:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
The Savior	View Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Spanish:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
1569 Sagradas Escrituras			✓
1602 Reina-Valera Antigua			✓
Biblia de América	✓	✓	✓
Dios Habla Hoy		✓
La Biblia			✓
La Palabra de Dios para Todos		✓
La Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional®	✓
Lenguaje Actual		✓
Reina Valera 1995		✓
Reina Valera Contemporánea	✓
Reina Valera, Revisada y Corregida (1865)			✓
The Word of God for All - 2000 World Bible Translation Center		✓	✓
The Word of God for All 2014		✓	✓

13 entries

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Spaniards are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Spaniards:

Continue prayer and fasting for this group

Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Spaniards of Angola

And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you."
1 Samuel 13:13a

Pray that those who are walking in disobedience will recognize their sin and to turn to God.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
Psalm 96:8

Pray for people here to humbly give God the glory due His name.

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:6-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be rooted and built up in Him, abounding in thanksgiving for the grace and mercy He has shown them.

There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
Mark 7:15

Pray for Christians to take any opportunity to share the hope of Jesus with lost people here, praying they will be wise like Jesus as they share the truth about what can defile people and what can make them clean.

Spaniard Across Countries (ROP3 - 109534) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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19 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population ▼	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG000535	Spaniards	Spain	31,920,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000199	Spaniards	France	248,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG022234	Spaniards	Germany	184,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000684	Spaniards	United Kingdom	159,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG046463	Spaniards	United States	85,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000601	Spaniards	Switzerland	85,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG042492	Spaniards	Belgium	50,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000358	Spaniards	Italy	27,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000002	Spaniards	Andorra	24,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Unaffiliated
PG000435	Spaniards	Netherlands	19,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG020265	Spaniards	Australia	19,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG015206	Spaniards	Angola	18,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000497	Spaniards	Portugal	16,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000303	Spaniards	Ireland	15,500	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG043476	Spaniards	Canada	12,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000043	Spaniards	Austria	7,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000097	Spaniards	Denmark	5,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG016449	Spaniards	Trinidad and Tobago	4,300	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG018373	Spaniards	New Caledonia	2,900	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism

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