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The Mizo of India

The Mizo of India, numbering approximately 1,130,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a scheduled tribe of India, Mizoram. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Lushai is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Mizo
Primary Language(s): Lushai (lus)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 1,130,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG041461
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Pray for the Mizo of India

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

41%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Lushai
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Mizo Speakers

Media Resources in Lushai:

Films:
Title Link
JESUS View Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Lushai:

Bible Name (Translation) Video Audio Text
2005 Bibles International ✓
Bible Society of India ✓

2 entries

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Or check out the Lushai bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mizo 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 Mizo:
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 Mizo of India

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

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.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
readRomans 5:2

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the hope of glory and be in awe of God's mercy that gives them access to Him through faith.

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
readMark 1:17-18

Pray that God will raise up believers from this place and/or other cultures nearby to proclaim the gospel to those who desperately need to encounter it.

Mizo, Lushai Across Countries (ROP3 - 115520) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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3 people groups

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population ▼ Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Mizo PG041461 Mizo India 1,130,000 No Longer Unreached Lushai Protestantism
Lushai PG009473 Lushai Myanmar 19,500 No Longer Unreached Lushai Protestantism
Lushai PG001185 Lushai Bangladesh 2,000 No Longer Unreached Lushai Protestantism

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