People group profile · PG046634
The Kermanshahi Kurds of Iran
The Kermanshahi Kurds of Iran, numbering about 3,950,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Iran.
They are an indigenous people in the Kurd people cluster of the Persian-Median Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Southern Kurdish.
Fast facts
- Country
- Iran
- Population
- 3,950,000
- Affinity group
- Central Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Kurd
- Primary language
- Southern Kurdish (sdh)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Hamadan, Ilam, Lorestan, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, and Kordestan provinces; Sistan and Baluchestan province: southeast small area
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kermanshahi Kurds 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, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Kermanshahi Kurds
- 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
Sunni Islam · Islam
100% adherents
Primary language
Southern Kurdish · Indo-European family
75% speak Southern Kurdish
Gospel resources in Southern Kurdish
- Bible available, published 1900
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- Magdalena (Kermanshahi)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kermanshahi Kurds
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
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