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The Kachin of Myanmar

The Kachin of Myanmar, numbering approximately 1,070,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Tibeto-Burman people whose Jingpo ancestors migrated south from Tibet, ruled by the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms before forming independent highland chieftaincies, and who signed the 1947 Panglong Agreement securing approval for their own Kachin State. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Kachin is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Kachin

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Himalayan Peoples
Country: Myanmar
People Cluster: Miri-Kachin
Primary Language(s): Kachin (kac)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 1,070,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG009448
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

51%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Kachin
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Jingpho Speakers

Media Resources in Kachin:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Kachin:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1993 United Bible Societies (Hanson)✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Kachin bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Kachin 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 Kachin:
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 Kachin of Myanmar

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
read1 Timothy 6:9

Pray for those, rich and poor, who have put their trust in worldly things, and ask that they will be honest with themselves, acknowledge their need for God and turn to Him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
readJohn 3:16

Pray that the lost will seek God and learn that they have a heavenly Father who loves them and wants them to live eternally with Him.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
readPsalm 51:2

Pray that God will raise up believers to go and share the gospel with those in this people group who need to be washed of their iniquity and cleansed from their sins.

Kachin, Jingpho Across Countries (ROP3 - 104372) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
KachinPG009448KachinMyanmar1,070,000No Longer UnreachedKachinProtestantism
KachinPG047264KachinUnited States175No Longer UnreachedKachinProtestantism
JingpoPG007217JingpoChina29,500No Longer UnreachedKachinProtestantism

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