The Algerian Jews of Algeria

The Algerian Jews of Algeria, numbering approximately 225 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as an ethnoreligious community of French-speaking Jews in Algeria; most Jews left Algeria upon independence in 1962, but a small community persists Maghrebi Jews They are an Diaspora people, with Jewish as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Jews people cluster of the Jewish Peoples. They mostly adhere to Secularism and French is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Jewish Peoples
Country: Algeria
People Cluster: Jews
Primary Language(s): French (fra)
Primary Religion(s): Secularism
Population: 225
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG042642

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Secularism
Religious Affiliation: Unaffiliated

70%
%
Secularism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: French
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
French Speakers

Media Resources in French:

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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

Next steps for the Algerian Jews:
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For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that any who may be enemies of God will grasp the depth of God's love demonstrated through Christ's death for the ungodly, and be reconciled to Him.

Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
readGenesis 2:7

Pray that Christians will be able to share the hope of Christ with suffering people and that He will breathe new life into their souls.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
readIsaiah 26:3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, the Lord will keep them in perfect peace as they trust in Him.

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
readJohn 1:12

Pray that believers will have the opportunity to clearly share the good news with the lost here, so that all people can be invited to trust in Jesus and become children of God.

Jew (French) Across Countries (ROP3 - 103063) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
JewsJewsFrance600,000Engaged yet UnreachedFrenchJudaism
Jew (French)Jew (French)Israel118,000Engaged yet UnreachedFrenchJudaism
Algerian JewsAlgerian JewsAlgeria225Unengaged and UnreachedFrenchSecularism

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