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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Angolar of Sao Tome and Principe

The Angolar of Sao Tome and Principe, numbering approximately 8,700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a distinct creole community of southern São Tomé descended from maroons who escaped from the island's colonial plantation system. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Angolar is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Sao Tome and Principe
People Cluster: Other Sub-Saharan African
Primary Language(s): Angolar (aoa)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 8,700
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG014209
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Angolar
Language Family: Indo-European

60%
%
Angolar Speakers

Media Resources in Angolar:

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Bible Resources in Angolar:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Angolar are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Angolar:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Angolar of Sao Tome and Principe

For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
read1 Chronicles 16:26

Pray that those among them who are lost and seeking after worthless idols will have the opportunity to hear and respond to the good news, seeing that Jesus is better than any idol.

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:26-27

Pray that the lost will seek God and find Him, for He is not far from each one of us. Pray that they will have opportunities to access the gospel, learn God's purpose for their lives, and believe in Him.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

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.

Angolar Across Countries (ROP3 - 100362) reported in the following countries:

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PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
AngolarPG014209AngolarSao Tome and Principe8,700No Longer UnreachedAngolarProtestantism

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