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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Southern Hindko of Pakistan

The Southern Hindko of Pakistan, numbering approximately 1,730,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Pakistan. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Southern Hindko is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: South Asian Peoples
Country: Pakistan
People Cluster: Punjabi
Primary Language(s): Southern Hindko (hnd)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 1,730,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG006402

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Pray for the Southern Hindko of Pakistan

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southern Hindko
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Hindko, Southern Speakers

Media Resources in Southern Hindko:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Southern Hindko:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Southern Hindko bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Southern Hindko 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 Southern Hindko:
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 Southern Hindko of Pakistan

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
readPsalm 34:8

Pray that the gospel will advance and that many will have the opportunity to taste and see the goodness of God and entrust their lives to Him.

I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
readPsalm 3:5-6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and experience isolation or other persecution, God will sustain them and give them confidence and rest in Him.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Southern Hindko Across Countries (ROP3 - 109481) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Southern HindkoPG006402Southern HindkoPakistan1,730,000Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern HindkoSunni Islam

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