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The Idaca of Benin

The Idaca of Benin, numbering approximately 224,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Yoruba-related Ede-speaking people of Benin's Collines Department, centered on the towns of Glazoue and Dassa. They mostly adhere to Animism and Ede Idaca is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Benin
People Cluster: Yoruba
Primary Language(s): Ede Idaca (idd)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 224,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012329
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Pray for the Idaca of Benin

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

95%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ede Idaca
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Ede Idaca Speakers

Media Resources in Ede Idaca:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Ede Idaca:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Wycliffe Benin✓✓✓

1 entry

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Or check out the Ede Idaca bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Idaca 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 Idaca:
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 Idaca of Benin

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
readColossians 3:5-6

Pray for God to have mercy and give those who don't yet know Him the gift of Jesus and His salvation for all who call upon His name.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
readJob 1:20-22

Pray that those who mourn will worship God in the midst of their suffering and loss, recognizing He is the source of all good things and that He is worthy of their praise and trust.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
readPsalm 96:4

Pray that God will raise up believers to declare His glory among the lost, so that they may know that He is great and greatly to be praised, that He is exalted above all gods.

Idaca Across Countries (ROP3 - 103946) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
IdacaPG012329IdacaBenin224,000Engaged yet UnreachedEde IdacaAnimism

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