Levantine Arabs of Australia (PGID: PG020267)

The Levantine Arabs of Australia

The Levantine Arabs of Australia, numbering approximately 196,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a diaspora Arab community of predominantly Lebanese and Syrian descent whose identity reflects successive migration waves from the Levant and the preservation of shared Levantine cultural traditions in Australia. They mostly adhere to Roman Catholicism and Gulf Arabic is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Arab Peoples
Country: Australia
People Cluster: Arab, Levant
Primary Language(s): Gulf Arabic (afb)
Primary Religion(s): Roman Catholicism
Population: 196,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG020267
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Roman Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

35%

Roman Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Gulf Arabic
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%

Arabic, Gulf Speakers

Media Resources in Gulf Arabic:

Films:

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JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
The Savior	View Film

3 films

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Bible Resources in Gulf Arabic:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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Or check out the Gulf Arabic bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Levantine Arabs 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 Levantine Arabs:

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 Levantine Arabs of Australia

Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!
Psalm 30:10

Pray that people in the depths of despair and suffering and living outside of relationship with Christ will cry out to the Lord and find help, peace, and joy in Him.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:23

Pray that the gospel will advance and many will acknowledge that all have sinned, fall short of God's glory, and need a Savior to reconcile them to God.

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
2 Corinthians 12:28

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will grow in the spiritual gifts God has given them and use these gifts to glorify Him and build up the Church.

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
Psalm 96:4

Pray that God will raise up believers to declare His glory among the lost, so that they may know that He is great and greatly to be praised, that He is exalted above all gods.

Arab, Levantine Across Countries (ROP3 - 109667) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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16 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population ▼	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG024574	Levantine Arabs	Turkiye	1,460,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Levantine Arabic	Folk Islam
PG000662	Levantine Arabs	United Kingdom	512,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG000573	Levantine Arabs	Sweden	407,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Levantine Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG012216	Levantine Arabs	Tunisia	251,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG011511	Levantine Arabs	Egypt	218,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG020267	Levantine Arabs	Australia	196,000	No Longer Unreached	Gulf Arabic	Roman Catholicism
PG042458	Middle Eastern Arabs	Germany	104,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Levantine Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG013104	Levantine Arabs	Cote d’Ivoire	67,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG000489	Levantine Arabs	Portugal	23,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG013440	Levantine Arabs	Guinea-Bissau	11,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Levantine Arabic	Folk Islam
PG016381	Levantine Arabs	Haiti	5,700	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG017480	Levantine Arabs	Ecuador	3,200	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG013421	Levantine Arabs	Guinea	1,300	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Folk Islam
PG016402	Levantine Arabs	Curacao	325	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG016213	Levantine Arabs	British Virgin Islands	60	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam
PG016310	Levantine Arabs	Dominica	50	Unengaged and Unreached	Standard Arabic	Sunni Islam

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