The Spanish Jews of Spain

The Spanish Jews of Spain, numbering approximately 17,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnoreligious community of Spanish Jews in Spain. They mostly adhere to Judaism and Spanish is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Jewish Peoples
Country: Spain
People Cluster: Jews
Primary Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Primary Religion(s): Judaism
Population: 17,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG000536
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Judaism
Religious Affiliation: Judaism

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Judaism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Spanish
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Spanish Speakers

Media Resources in Spanish:

Films:
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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): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

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For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
readRomans 1:20

As God's creation declares His glory, pray that multitudes who don't know Him will see the works of His hands and desire to know more about the Creator.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
read1 Timothy 2:5-6

Pray for the truth about Jesus Christ to spread among the lost so that many will accept His ransom for their sin and experience freedom in a relationship with Him.

And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.”
readGenesis 15:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust God to keep His promises.

He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
readJohn 1:7

Pray that God will raise up witnesses to testify about Jesus so that all might believe, knowing that He is light and in Him there is no darkness at all.

Jew, Latin American Across Countries (ROP3 - 109538) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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8 people groups

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population Strategic Progress Index Language ▲ Religion
Jews Jews Panama 11,000 Unengaged and Unreached Hebrew Judaism
Spanish Jews Spanish Jews Spain 17,000 Unengaged and Unreached Spanish Judaism
Jews Jews Argentina 188,000 Engaged yet Unreached Spanish Judaism
Cuban Jews Cuban Jews Cuba 500 Unengaged and Unreached Spanish Judaism
Jews Jews Uruguay 17,500 Engaged yet Unreached Spanish Judaism
Jews Jews Colombia 2,200 Unengaged and Unreached Spanish Judaism
Jews Jews Venezuela 7,000 Unengaged and Unreached Spanish Judaism
Jews Jews Mexico 41,500 Unengaged and Unreached Spanish Judaism

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