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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Romanians of Ireland

The Romanians of Ireland, numbering approximately 32,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an East Romance people descended from Romanized Dacians of historical Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania, predominantly Romanian Orthodox, noted for a Latin language preserved amid Slavic and Hungarian neighbors and strong rural folk-culture traditions They are an Diaspora people, with Romanian as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Romanian people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Romanian is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: Ireland
People Cluster: Romanian
Primary Language(s): Romanian (ron)
Primary Religion(s): Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Population: 32,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG048049
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

66%
%
Eastern Orthodox Christia… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Romanian
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Romanian Speakers

Media Resources in Romanian:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Romanian:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2000 Bible League International✓
Dumitru Cornilescu / Библия Думитру Корнилеску 1924✓
Interconfessional Version✓✓
Noua Traducere Românească (NTR)✓

4 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Romanian bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Romanians 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 Romanians:
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 Romanians of Ireland

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
read1 John 4:10

Pray for those without the hope of Christ to understand the depth of God's love and the sacrifice He made for them.

"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."
readIsaiah 1:18

Pray that God will make a way for the gospel to reach many through means they can understand and access, that they will receive the good news with joy, and that they will experience complete forgiveness and cleansing from their sin that Jesus offers through His sacrifice.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
readRomans 10:12

Pray that as people from different backgrounds place their faith in Christ, they will be unified by their faith Him.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
readJohn 12:24

Pray that God will raise up men and women who are willing to die to their own desires, bearing much fruit for the kingdom among individuals and in places where His gospel has not been proclaimed.

Romanian Across Countries (ROP3 - 108398) reported in the following countries:

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15 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
RomaniansPG000899RomaniansRomania16,310,000No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG048833RomaniansItaly1,305,000No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG042354RomaniansSpain672,000Engaged yet UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG048048RomaniansUnited Kingdom383,000Engaged yet UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG043611RomaniansUnited States173,000No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG042371RomaniansBelgium125,000Unengaged and UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG043462RomaniansCanada106,000Engaged yet UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG000835RomaniansHungary96,500No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG049963RomaniansAustria84,500No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG048049RomaniansIreland32,500No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG000192RomaniansFrance13,000No Longer UnreachedFrenchEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG050033RomaniansCzech Republic13,000No Longer UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG024083RomaniansAzerbaijan2,000Unengaged and UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity
RomaniansPG016490RomaniansVenezuela1,500No Longer UnreachedRomanianRoman Catholicism
RomaniansPG024634RomaniansTurkmenistan90Unengaged and UnreachedRomanianEastern Orthodox Christianity

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