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The Bengali of Canada

The Bengali of Canada, numbering approximately 81,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic community originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Bengali is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Bengali

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: South Asian Peoples
Country: Canada
People Cluster: Bengali
Primary Language(s): Bengali (ben)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 81,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG043360
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

95%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bengali
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Bengali Speakers

Media Resources in Bengali:

Films:
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JESUSView Film
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MagdalenaView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Bengali:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Common Language Version✓✓✓
Mussolmani✓✓
Re-edit Bangla Version✓✓

3 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Bengali bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Bengali 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 Bengali:
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 Bengali of Canada

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
readRomans 11:22

Pray that God will transform those who persist in unbelief and, in His everlasting kindness, graft them into His family.

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.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
read2 Corinthians 5:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will understand and experience the truth that in Christ, they are a new creation, and the old has gone and the new has come.

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
readIsaiah 58:7

As believers cross cultures to share the good news of Christ, pray that God will sustain them and grow their faith as He gives them the compassion necessary to minister well to those in need.

Bengali Across Countries (ROP3 - 101254) reported in the following countries:

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16 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▲CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BengaliPG000614BengaliUnited Kingdom1,175,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG006332BengaliPakistan393,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG006430BengaliSri Lanka25,500Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG009409BengaliMyanmar347,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG010689BengaliSingapore157,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG010826BengaliThailand35,500Unengaged and UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG011915BengaliSaudi Arabia1,085,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG012225BengaliUnited Arab Emirates1,360,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG014766BengaliKenya1,700Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG033519BengaliItaly134,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG042451BengaliGermany15,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG043360BengaliCanada81,500Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG043534BengaliUnited States377,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG046408BengaliOman268,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG046931BengaliMalaysia500,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam
BengaliPG048197BengaliIndia4,590,000Engaged yet UnreachedBengaliSunni Islam

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

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