Hausa of Algeria (PGID: PG011263)

The Hausa of Algeria

The Hausa of Algeria, numbering approximately 12,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Hausa diaspora of people from northern Nigeria and southern Niger, whose long-distance trading and trans-Saharan migration established communities beyond Hausaland. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Hausa is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Algeria
People Cluster: Hausa
Primary Language(s): Hausa (hau)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 12,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG011263
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

100%

Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Hausa
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

99%

Hausa Speakers

Media Resources in Hausa:

Films:

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

3 films

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Bible Resources in Hausa:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio
1979 Bible Society of Nigeria		✓
Common Language Version (FCBH Audio)	✓	✓
Littafi Mai Tsarki	✓

3 entries

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

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And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
Luke 1:46-47

Pray that those who are lost will recognize their need for a Savior and joyfully embrace the mercy that God offers.

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.
Matthew 13:8-9

Pray that they will have open hearts and minds to the Word of God, and that it will take root in their lives and bear fruit for His glory.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Psalm 23:6

Ask God to raise up believers who will share the hope that, for those who trust in Christ, goodness and love will follow them all the days of their lives, and they will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Hausa Across Countries (ROP3 - 103733) reported in the following countries:

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19 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population ▲	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG047465	Hausa	Canada	375	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG013409	Hausa	Guinea	1,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG050354	Hausa	United States	5,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG012404	Hausa	Burkina Faso	12,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG011263	Hausa	Algeria	12,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG012971	Hausa	Congo	12,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG014358	Hausa	Togo	26,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013165	Hausa	Equatorial Guinea	32,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012869	Hausa	Central African Republic	41,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012327	Hausa	Benin	44,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013188	Hausa	Gabon	45,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG042724	Hausa	Ethiopia	134,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG011360	Hausa	Chad	296,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013336	Hausa	Ghana	323,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012616	Hausa	Cameroon	433,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013089	Hausa	Cote d’Ivoire	484,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012037	Hausa	Sudan	1,060,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG013600	Hausa	Niger	16,190,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013828	Hausa	Nigeria	40,630,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam

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