People group profile · PG012051
The Kadiro of South Sudan
The Kadiro of South Sudan, numbering about 8,100 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are one of the five traditional dialect divisions of the Moru people in South Sudan's Western Equatoria, whose communal memory preserves accounts of nineteenth-century Azande raids and Ottoman-Egyptian slave raiders that drove them onto refuge hills near Lui.
They are an indigenous people in the Sudanic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Moru.
Fast facts
- Country
- South Sudan
- Population
- 8,100
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Sudanic
- Primary language
- Moru (mgd)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, Concentrated CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Pioneer Unreached People Group
- Region
- Northern Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kadiro are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical but there has been initial or concentrated church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years Concentrated Church Planting
Next steps for the Kadiro
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
50% adherents
Primary language
Moru · Central Sudanic family
100% speak Moru
Gospel resources in Moru
- Bible available, published 2000
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Moru)
Bibles
- 1996 The Bible Society of South Sudan · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kadiro
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
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