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The Vietnamese of Uzbekistan

The Vietnamese of Uzbekistan, numbering approximately 450 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnic Kinh community indigenous to Vietnam. They mostly adhere to Mahayana Buddhism and Vietnamese is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: Uzbekistan
People Cluster: Vietnamese
Primary Language(s): Vietnamese (vie)
Primary Religion(s): Mahayana Buddhism
Population: 450
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024326

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Pray for the Vietnamese of Uzbekistan

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Mahayana Buddhism
Religious Affiliation: Buddhism

61%
%
Mahayana Buddhism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Vietnamese
Language Family: Austroasiatic

100%
%
Vietnamese Speakers

Media Resources in Vietnamese:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
MagdalenaView Film

4 films

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Vietnamese:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1924 Khoi-Cadman✓
2002 Bible League International✓
Ban Dich 2011✓
Revised Vietnamese Version✓
Vietnamese Old Version✓✓
Word of God for Everyone (Catholic)✓✓✓

6 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Vietnamese bible at Bible.com

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Explore Lostness and Next Steps

Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

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Pray specifically for the Vietnamese of Uzbekistan

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.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 3:23

Pray that the gospel will advance and many will acknowledge that all have sinned, fall short of God's glory, and need a Savior to reconcile them to God.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
readRomans 8:15

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember the God who has given them freedom from fear so that they will trust Him completely as their good Father who meets all their needs.

"For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you."
readActs 17:23

Pray that believers God sends to cross cultures will be sensitive to the spiritual needs of the people they serve, and will proclaim the truth of Christ to them in creative ways that they will understand.

Kinh Across Countries (ROP3 - 105018) reported in the following countries:

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24 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
VietnamesePG033474VietnameseVietnam85,770,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG043675VietnameseUnited States1,605,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG000207VietnameseFrance656,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG050668VietnameseJapan654,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseEthnoreligion
VietnamesePG008197VietnameseCambodia535,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG008087VietnameseAustralia336,000No Longer UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG043501VietnameseCanada258,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG048427VietnameseTaiwan217,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseAncestor Worship
VietnamesePG048428VietnameseRussian Federation150,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseAncestor Worship
VietnamesePG020963VietnameseLaos139,000No Longer UnreachedVietnameseEthnoreligion
VietnamesePG010933VietnameseThailand119,000No Longer UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG000694VietnameseUnited Kingdom100,000Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG046599VietnameseMalaysia85,000No Longer UnreachedVietnameseConfucianism
VietnamesePG033510VietnameseGermany83,500Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG000777VietnameseCzech Republic60,500Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG050598VietnameseHong Kong46,500Engaged yet UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG050595VietnameseMacao18,500Unengaged and UnreachedVietnameseFolk Buddhism
VietnamesePG000445VietnameseNetherlands8,800No Longer UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG018514VietnameseNew Zealand4,900No Longer UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG018377VietnameseNew Caledonia4,200Unengaged and UnreachedVietnameseRoman Catholicism
VietnamesePG007420VietnameseChina2,800Unengaged and UnreachedVietnameseAtheism
VietnamesePG011093VietnameseVanuatu500Unengaged and UnreachedVietnameseRoman Catholicism
VietnamesePG024326VietnameseUzbekistan450Unengaged and UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism
VietnamesePG016394VietnameseMartinique375Unengaged and UnreachedVietnameseMahayana Buddhism

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