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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Send cross-cultural teams to discover and research this people group
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Pray specifically for the Algerian Jews of Algeria

For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.
readLuke 19:10

Pray that those who are lost will respond to the One who came to seek and save the lost, and experience the joy of being found.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
readPsalm 34:4

Pray for each who becomes a child of God to share the hope of eternity with family and friends.

Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
readPsalm 25:6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember the merciful nature and steadfast love of God as they walk with Him daily.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

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

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▲PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Algerian JewsAlgerian JewsAlgeria225Unengaged and UnreachedFrenchSecularism
JewsJewsFrance600,000Engaged yet UnreachedFrenchJudaism
Jew (French)Jew (French)Israel118,000Engaged yet UnreachedFrenchJudaism

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