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The Bashkardi of Iran

The Bashkardi of Iran, numbering approximately 7,900 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnic community native to the mountainous Bashakerd region of southeastern Iran, whose Bashkardi dialects form a linguistic transition toward Baluchi. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Bashkardi is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Iran
People Cluster: Baloch
Primary Language(s): Bashkardi (bsg)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 7,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG024145
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

100%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bashkardi
Language Family: Indo-European

75%
%
Bashkardi Speakers

Media Resources in Bashkardi:

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Bible Resources in Bashkardi:

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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): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources (GSEC: 0), there are no evangelical Christians or churches among this people group and there is no access to evangelical print, audio, visual or human resources

Next steps for the Bashkardi:
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Pray specifically for the Bashkardi of Iran

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
readJohn 14:6

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will recognize Him as the only way to the Father and follow Him in faith.

Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!
readPsalm 150:2

Pray for the gospel to advance among those who are living in darkness. Pray that they will come to know Jesus and praise Him for all that He has done.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readMatthew 9:37-38

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will raise up believers to send out into His harvest field, which is ripe and ready.

Bashkardi Across Countries (ROP3 - 101099) reported in the following countries:

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PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BashkardiPG024145BashkardiIran7,900Unengaged and UnreachedBashkardiSunni Islam

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