People group profile · PG012427
The Zaore of Burkina Faso
The Zaore of Burkina Faso, numbering about 68,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Moore-speaking Mossi community of Burkina Faso's Volta basin, part of a people whose ancestors founded the kingdoms of Ouagadougou, Tenkodogo, and Yatenga between the 11th and 15th centuries and resisted the region's spread of Islam for generations.
They are an indigenous people in the Gur people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Mossi.
Fast facts
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Population
- 68,500
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Gur
- Primary language
- Mossi (mos)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Zaore are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Zaore
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
98% adherents
Primary language
Mossi · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Mossi
Gospel resources in Mossi
- Bible available, published 2014
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
Bibles
- 1998 Protestant Version · video, audio, text
- 1998 Roman Catholic Version · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Zaore
- 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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