REPORT ON GLOBAL FIELD
LIST OF PEOPLE GROUPS LESS EVANGELISED IN LATIN AMERICA
1. ANGUILLA
There is religion, but without much vision for evangelism, committed discipleship or taking the gospel to other parts of the world. Lack of Inter-denominational cooperation.
2. ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Antiguans are almost all Christian in name, with many Evangelicals among them, but they are complacent in the face of serious moral and spiritual breakdown. Strongholds of sin are drug-dealing, violence, gambling, prostitution and a growing kidnapping 'industry'. Oneness in fellowship and vision is a great need. Many refugees from Montserrat have fled to Antigua since the 1997 volcanic eruption on their island. The small Hispanic, Lebanese, Muslim and Hindu trading communities.
3. ARGENTINA
The strong Jewish community, mostly in Buenos Aires , is the world's sixth largest; The sophisticated upper class of the capital; The urban poor. University students (many living below the poverty line); Quechua and Aymara from Argentina , Chile and Bolivia.
4. ARUBA
The Papiamento-speaking population.
5. BAHAMAS
Materialism stimulated by tourism and drug money has deeply affected every level of society. Groups of people involve in these acts. Low commitment among Christians.
6. BARBADOS
Despite religious profession and a large number of Evangelicals, real commitment to the Lordship of Jesus is not the norm. Materialism, decreasing church attendance, increased violence and crime are the symptoms of spiritual malaise. Satanist groups; Muslims; Mormons; disillusioned traditional Christians; Young people
7. BELIZE
Belizeans are largely professing Christians, but nominalism and syncretism are common. The Spanish-speaking immigrants (superstitious and superficial); Mayans (paganism), and the Garifuna (black magic); The Chinese (from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan); The East Indians (almost entirely Muslim or Hindu).
8. BOLIVA
The upper classes; The rural villages: Quechua, Aymara and lowland peoples living in hard-to-access mountain or forest regions; tertiary students in the nine universities (disillusioned with traditional Catholicism, often secular, promiscuous, consumed with feelings of guilt and inadequacy and discouraged by interrupted courses and bleak future prospects); The youth; Children.
9. BRAZIL
Spiritism is a dynamic force for evil in Brazil . Not only is Brazil the largest Catholic country, but also the largest spiritist country in the world. There are seven million Brazilians practising Kardecism ('high' spiritism) and millions more practising Umbanda and Macumba ('low' spiritism with African roots). A majority of Brazilians are involved (most still claiming to be Christian). The squalid favelas: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo 's population. These lawless areas are rarely entered by the police and are hotbeds of crime, drugs, violence, prostitution and disease. AIDS is a major problem; The northeast: the poor Sertão; The Amazon basin; The cities; The Japanese; Chinese who live largely in São Paulo; Koreans; Children in crisis; street kids; without home and subject to drug abuse, prostitution, misuse by criminal gangs and even murder by police death squads; Young people who face many pressures; The indigenous Amerindians.
10. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
This ' Paradise ' is one of the most beautiful in the world, yet sin mars many. Most of the population profess Christianity and even belong to congregations that preach holiness, yet 75% of births are out of wedlock.
11. CAYMAN ISLAND
Much of the wealth passing through the nearly 600 banks has been 'laundered' by international criminals. There is one bank for every 50 people, and a registered company for every inhabitant. Over a million tourists a year visit the islands.
12. CHILE
The Mapuche (speaking Mapudungun) - nominally Catholic, but the old animistic religion is still the most influential spiritual force; Rapa Nui (Easter Islanders) - are a largely Polynesian people; Drug abusers; The Jews of Santiago; The Roma (Gypsies); The handicapped; Student the 17 universities
13. COLOMBIA
Medellín, (the nation's crime and narcotics capital); The city of Cali; gamines, or street urchins; The urban middle class (turning to the occult in growing numbers); The Syrian-Lebanese Muslim community; Amerindian peoples: the Chami, Inga, Coreguaje, Cuiba, Desano, Epena, Huitoto, Saliba and Tucano; Student work (Marxist ideology once dominated the campuses); Internally displaced refugees, 70% of whom are women and children; victims of the faceless endemic violence.
14. COSTA RICA
Students; All Amerindian tribes; Chinese; The Mekitelyu Afro-Caribbean community; Muslim immigrants: Arab, Iranian and South Asian.
15. CUBA
The unchurched majority: Hispanic: Mulatto 51%, White 37%, Black 11%. Spiritism has been actively supported by the government as 'cultural': devotees of Santaria, Mayombe and Zarabanda cults which resemble Haitian voodoo. The Chinese, Indians and Arabs.
16. DOMINICA
The Carib Indians (Most nominal Christian).
17. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The unchurched majority (nominally Christian but occultism is widespread, pervasive and strong): Hispanic: Afro-Caribbean, Euro-American; The middle and upper classes; Youth; The Chinese,
18. ECUADOR
The slum-dwellers of Quito and Guayaquil; The upper and middle classes; University and school students; The Saraguro and Salasaca Quichua; The 6,000 people living on the distant and barren Galapagos Islands; The provinces of Carchi and Loja; Lujo; The Chinese
19. EL SALVADOR
The Amerindian population; Over 350,000 abandoned children; university students
20. FALKLAND ISLANDS
Falkland Islanders, or 'Kelpies'; oilmen and fishermen of many nationalities who work in the seas around the islands; The British forces
21. FRENCH GUIANA
The Amerindian tribes: Arawak, Wayana, Palikur, Oyapi and Emerillon; The nominally Catholic Caribs; The inland settlements of largely animistic Maron set up by escaped slaves; The Chinese; The French and European communities linked with the space programme.
22. GRENADA
Much of the population is nominally Catholic; Lack of unity and suspicion between denominations; Widespread nominalism even in evangelical congregations.
23. GUADELOUPE
The outlying dependencies; South Asian descent people; The French
24. GUATEMALA
Amerindian peoples: the Pocomam, Pocomchi, Ixil, Jacaltec, Chorti and Upsantec; Garifuna (Black Carib) - descendants of Africans and Carib Amerindians; The Chinese; Students; Children in crisis (underweight under-5's, war orphans and street children in the capital).
25. GUYANA
Most of the Afro-Guyanans (Nominal Christians); The Indo-Guyanan community (Hindus, Muslims); The many Hindu rural communities; The Muslims (Urdu-speaking older generation and the younger generation with ties to the Arab world and Islamist revivalism)
26. HAITI
The Mulatto elite; The youth; Refugees
27. HONDURAS
The street children ; The minority Arab and Chinese communities
28. JAMAICA
The very poor have little exposure to the gospel; The 'barrel' children; The Rastafarians: began as a protest movement that espoused spiritism, Black Power and Black consciousness ideas and worshipped the Ethiopian Emperor (Ras Tafari). They are well known for their left-wing politics, dreadlocks, reggae music and use of ganja (marijuana). They have considerable influence in Jamaica and have spread to Europe and North America . They need the Saviour.
29. MARTINQUE
Dysfunctional families; The immoral and drug abusers. The Guadeloupans and Martiniquans living in France (Antilleans).
30. MEXICO
Young people : University Students, Teenagers, Street children (especially in Mexico City); States of Zacatecas, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Colima, Michoacán, Querétaro, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit and Mexico. Many conservative Catholic and animistic towns, cities and groups; The wealthy elite (strong atheist-agnostic); neighbourhoods in Mexico City ; The slum-dwellers; Indians (largely Catholic in name but pagan in practice).
31. MONTSERRAT
Numerous nominal Christians.
32. NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
The Immorals and Superstitious
33. NICARAGUA
Moravian, Anglican or Catholic (often traditional and syncretistic); The Miskitu; Young people; The Sandinista and 'Contra' soldiers; The Hispanicized Indians; The Garifuna
34. PANAMA
The upper-middle classes; The Chinese; The South Asians - largely Gujarati-speaking. (Mostly Muslims, some Hindus, and others Sikh); Jews; University students.
35. PARAGUAY
The Roman Catholic Church; Protestants: Mennonites and Lutherans, Ukrainian Baptists and Pentecostals and Korean Presbyterians ( Nominalism ).
36. PERU
Dwellers of slums that ring Lima city; coastal provinces; Amazon Lowland Spanish-speaking farmers; southern Andes areas of Ayacucho, Apurimac and Arequipa; Amerindian tribal peoples; The business/professional and upper classes; Ethnic minorities: the Chinese, Japan, Pakistani Muslims; Street children; AIDS Victims; Students.
37. PUERTO RICO
The people involved with alcoholism, drug addiction, corruption, crime, poverty and AID victims.
38. SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
(Drug-trafficking, money laundering); Unconverted Nevis
39. SAINT LUCIA
Large nominal Christian population (80% of all children are born out of wedlock); The upper strata
40. SAINT VINCENT
Religious (not Biblically-based, Spirit-led Church , unconverted).
41. SURINAME
The Javanese (redominantly Muslim); Indian community (Muslim, occultism); Chinese; Bush Negroes; The Laotian Hmong.
42. TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Muslims, Hindus, dysfunctional 'Christian' families.
43. TURKS & CAICOS ISLAND
Offshore finance dealers (money laundering, licentiousness inflicted tourism and illegal drug trafficking); immigrants (mostly illegal from Haiti ).
44. URUGUAY
The Jews (concentrated in Montevideo); The Chinese and Japanese communities; Palestinians living in several border towns; The upper middle class (living along Montevideo's coast); The poor.
45. VENEZUELA
The upper and middle classes; Caracas; Students; Prisoners; Victims of the floods and landslides of 2000; The growing Arab; The Chinese; Other immigrant groups (Italians and Portuguese)
46. VIRGIN ISLAND OF THE USA
Immorality resulting from Tourism and the inflow of wealth; Nominal Christians; tourists; the Hispanic immigrants; the Rastafarians; people involved in the crime 'industry'.
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LIST OF PEOPLE GROUPS LESS EVANGELISED IN NORTH AMERICA
1. BERMUDA
The world's wealthiest Black-majority territory. Unity and common spiritual goals among churches.
2. CANADA
Canadian indigenous peoples (2,400 reservations); inhospitable northern parts of the country; native Canadian Indians; Inuit (Eskimo) in the Arctic (suicide rate is four times the national average); Immigrant communities: Asian Indians (Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims), Arabic-speaking peoples (mostly Muslim or Orthodox Christian), The Southern and Eastern European communities, The Chinese.
3. GREENLAND
Christianized, but not converted. 60 settlements of Greenlanders
4. ST PIERRE & MIQUELON
These isolated islands and their people have long been Catholic.
5. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Jews; The sects (Christian Science, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology); International students; Muslims ( immigration, Arabs, Iranians, Somalis, Afghans, Bosnians, etc., Afro-Americans); South Asians (Nearly all are Muslim, Hindu or Sikh and come from sections of Indian society least exposed to the gospel); The US prisoners (about 50% Afro-American sentenced for drug-related offences); Young people (especially in the decaying inner cities - many of those in their 20s are in prison); Black Muslims.
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