Spaniards of Australia (PGID: PG020265)

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The Spaniards of Australia

The Spaniards of Australia, numbering approximately 19,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Southern European people whose culture has been shaped by the interaction of Iberian, Roman, Visigothic, Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions, as well as centuries of regional development within the Iberian Peninsula They are an Diaspora people, with Spaniard as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Spanish people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Roman Catholicism and Spanish is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: Australia
People Cluster: Spanish
Primary Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Primary Religion(s): Roman Catholicism
Population: 19,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG020265
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Roman Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

90%

Roman Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Spanish
Language Family: Indo-European

100%

Spanish Speakers

Media Resources in Spanish:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
The Savior	View Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Spanish:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
1569 Sagradas Escrituras			✓
1602 Reina-Valera Antigua			✓
Biblia de América	✓	✓	✓
Dios Habla Hoy		✓
La Biblia			✓
La Palabra de Dios para Todos		✓
La Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional®	✓
Lenguaje Actual		✓
Reina Valera 1995		✓
Reina Valera Contemporánea	✓
Reina Valera, Revisada y Corregida (1865)			✓
The Word of God for All - 2000 World Bible Translation Center		✓	✓
The Word of God for All 2014		✓	✓

13 entries

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Or check out the Spanish bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Spaniards 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 Spaniards:

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 Spaniards of Australia

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:32

Pray for those who live enslaved to sin to hear and receive the truth of the gospel and be set free.

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.
Psalm 67:4

Pray that God will use ways from in-person witnesses to digital gospel resources to bring the joy of His salvation to everyone so that they can be glad in Him and sing for joy.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
Psalm 149:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be encouraged and feel immeasurably loved as they meditate on the fact that God takes pleasure in them.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Acts 1:8

Pray that God will raise up believers who are willing to cross cultures and boldly share the good news of Jesus with the lost in this people group and from every nation.

Spaniard Across Countries (ROP3 - 109534) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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19 people groups

People Group ID	Name ▼	Country	Population	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG000601	Spaniards	Switzerland	85,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG046463	Spaniards	United States	85,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG043476	Spaniards	Canada	13,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG042492	Spaniards	Belgium	50,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG022234	Spaniards	Germany	184,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG020265	Spaniards	Australia	19,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG018373	Spaniards	New Caledonia	2,900	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG016449	Spaniards	Trinidad and Tobago	4,300	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG015206	Spaniards	Angola	18,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000684	Spaniards	United Kingdom	159,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000002	Spaniards	Andorra	24,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Unaffiliated
PG000535	Spaniards	Spain	31,920,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000497	Spaniards	Portugal	16,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000435	Spaniards	Netherlands	19,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000358	Spaniards	Italy	27,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000303	Spaniards	Ireland	15,500	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000199	Spaniards	France	248,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000097	Spaniards	Denmark	5,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism
PG000043	Spaniards	Austria	7,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Spanish	Roman Catholicism

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