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

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Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Hausa
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

99%
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Hausa Speakers

Media Resources in Hausa:

Films:
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JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

3 films

Bible Resources in Hausa:

3 entries

Or check out the Hausa bible at Bible.com

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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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For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or?rulers?or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
readColossians 1:16

Pray for those who are lost among them, that they will come to know the One who created all things and holds all things together.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 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.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
read1 John 1:5

Pray that God will raise up believers who can share the gospel with people who don't know the good news of Jesus, that God is light and in him, there is no darkness at all.

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

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19 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
HausaHausaEquatorial Guinea32,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaUnited States5,400Unengaged and UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaHausaCanada375Engaged yet UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaHausaEthiopia134,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaHausaTogo26,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaNigeria40,630,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaNiger16,190,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaGuinea1,500Engaged yet UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaHausaGhana323,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaGabon45,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaAlgeria12,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaHausaCote d’Ivoire484,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaCongo12,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaCentral African Republic41,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaCameroon433,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaBurkina Faso12,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaBenin44,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaHausaSudan1,060,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaHausaChad296,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam

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