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The Mara Chin of India

The Mara Chin of India, numbering approximately 34,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Chin State of Myanmar and India's northeastern states. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Mara is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Chin, Mara

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Kuki-Chin (Zo)
Primary Language(s): Mara (mrh)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 34,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG042043
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

68%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mara
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Mara Speakers

Media Resources in Mara:

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Bible Resources in Mara:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mara Chin 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 Mara Chin:
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 Mara Chin of India

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that those who haven't heard will hear the Word of Christ and believe in Him, calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved.

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
readPsalm 119:97

Pray that the lost will have access to God's Word in their language and treasure it deeply, meditating on God's promises and precepts.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
readPsalm 51:9

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have confidence that God has turned His face from their sins and forgiven their iniquities.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
readPsalm 51:2

Pray that God will raise up believers to go and share the gospel with those in this people group who need to be washed of their iniquity and cleansed from their sins.

Chin, Mara Across Countries (ROP3 - 106301) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Mara ChinPG009481Mara ChinMyanmar25,000No Longer UnreachedMaraProtestantism
Mara ChinPG042043Mara ChinIndia34,500No Longer UnreachedMaraProtestantism
Mara ChinPG050341Mara ChinUnited States30No Longer UnreachedMaraProtestantism

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