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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Faroese of Faroe Islands

The Faroese of Faroe Islands, numbering approximately 50,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a North Germanic people native to the Faroe Islands, a North Atlantic archipelago located between Iceland, Norway, and Scotland. Their culture is shaped by a combination of Norse heritage, maritime livelihoods, and Lutheran Christianity. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Faroese is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: Faroe Islands
People Cluster: Scandinavian
Primary Language(s): Faroese (fao)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 50,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG000102
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

89%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Faroese
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Faroese Speakers

Media Resources in Faroese:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Faroese:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Faroese Bible 1961✓✓

1 entry

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Or check out the Faroese bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Faroese 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 Faroese:
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 Faroese of Faroe Islands

"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:25-27

Pray that the lost who think they have everything they need will recognize their spiritual poverty apart from Jesus and turn to Him in faith.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
readPsalm 104:8

Pray that they will see the hand of God in the beauty and order of the natural world, and that they will worship Him as the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
readHebrews 10:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will live with reverence for God and not deliberately keep sinning after they receive the knowledge of the truth.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
readRevelation 7:9-10

Pray that the promise in Revelation 7:9-10 will encourage believers from among them or from nearby people groups to share the gospel with people who have never learned it.

Faeroe Islander Across Countries (ROP3 - 102982) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
FaroesePG000102FaroeseFaroe Islands50,000No Longer UnreachedFaroeseProtestantism
FaroesePG000085FaroeseDenmark21,500No Longer UnreachedFaroeseProtestantism

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