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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Croats of Australia

The Croats of Australia, numbering approximately 57,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a South Slavic people native to Croatia and neighboring regions of the western Balkans, whose culture has been shaped by the interaction of Central European, Mediterranean, and Balkan traditions, as well as a long association with Roman Catholicism They are an Diaspora people, with Croat as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Slav, Southern people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism. They primarily speak Croatian.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: Australia
People Cluster: Slav, Southern
Primary Language(s): Croatian (hrv)
Primary Religion(s): Roman Catholicism
Population: 57,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG020251
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Roman Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

80%
%
Roman Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Croatian
Language Family:

100%
%
Croatian Speakers

Media Resources in Croatian:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Croatian:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Knjiga O Kristu✓
Vuk Karadzic version✓

2 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Croatian bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Croats 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 Croats:
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 Croats of Australia

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 8:1

Pray that God will reassure those who may be struggling with the cost of following Jesus that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
readPsalm 57:10

Pray that God will work, even in the hearts of hard-to-reach people, and that they will rejoice in His steadfast love and faithfulness.

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
readRomans 10:13

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and sometimes have doubts, God will help them remember and trust the power of Jesus to save them from their sins.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
readLuke 10:1

Ask God to raise up, send out, and sustain Christians who can go together to share the good news of Jesus with those who need it.

Croat Across Countries (ROP3 - 102315) reported in the following countries:

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10 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
CroatsPG000012CroatsAustria71,500Unengaged and UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG000548CroatsSweden9,400Unengaged and UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG000716CroatsBosnia and Herzegovina505,000Engaged yet UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG000753CroatsCroatia3,625,000Engaged yet UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG020251CroatsAustralia57,000Engaged yet UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG042908CroatsNorth Macedonia2,400Engaged yet UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG042922CroatsGermany416,000Engaged yet UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG043214CroatsUnited States189,000Engaged yet UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG050305CroatsSlovenia77,500Unengaged and UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism
CroatsPG050306CroatsMontenegro6,900Unengaged and UnreachedCroatianRoman Catholicism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

*Peoplegroups.org relies on updates from the field and other organizations for much of our data, so if you have any updates, please contact us. We use various international naming standards. For a list of these standards and fields, visit our Data Standards section.

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