The Tajiks of Afghanistan

The Tajiks of Afghanistan, numbering approximately 11,470,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Persian-speaking Iranian people indigenous to Afghanistan, historically associated with settled communities in the country's northern, northeastern, western, and urban regions and organized chiefly around family and locality rather than tribes They are an Indigenous people, with Tajik as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Tajik people cluster of the Persian-Median Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Dari is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Afghanistan
People Cluster: Tajik
Primary Language(s): Dari (prs)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 11,470,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024018

Pray for the Tajiks of Afghanistan

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

98%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Dari
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Dari Speakers

Media Resources in Dari:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

Bible Resources in Dari:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Good News for a New Age✓✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Dari bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Tajiks 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 Tajiks:
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 Tajiks of Afghanistan

But he said, "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:27

Praise God that He is the God of impossible things and that He is able to save even those who seem beyond hope.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
readPsalm 19:3

Pray that God will lead them to His Word, and where it is not available, ask that He will raise up those who will produce gospel media in their heart language.

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
readMatthew 5:16

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be humble and give glory to God through their good deeds.

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.

Tajik Across Countries (ROP3 - 109733) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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11 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TajiksTajiksAfghanistan11,470,000Engaged yet UnreachedDariSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksKazakhstan34,500Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksUzbekistan1,730,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksKyrgyzstan65,500Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksPakistan1,885,000Engaged yet UnreachedDariSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksTajikistan7,410,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksTurkmenistan5,900Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksUnited States2,400Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksCanada3,100Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksRussian Federation1,240,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksTajiksGermany25,000Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam

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