REPORT ON GLOBAL FIELD
LIST OF PEOPLE GROUPS LESS EVANGELISED IN EUROPE.
1. ALBANIA
Muslims, Catholics (in the north) and Orthodox Christians (in the south). Muslim countries have poured in huge amounts of aid and missionaries. The government secretly joined the World Muslim League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the dismay of many.
2. ANDORRA
Materialism holds Andorra in a tight grip. The occult is a stronghold in this beautiful principality. Most people consult mediums, seers, and astrologers for guidance and advice, usually at great financial cost.
3. AUSTRIA Towns: About 50 towns without an evangelical witness.
Cultists: New Age movements, Eastern cults, Jehovah's Witnesses (more numerous than evangelicals) and Mormons.
Refugees; The six ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia ; Muslim Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Iranians.
4. BELARUS
Jews (Living in Minsk); Muslims: Small communities of Azeris and Tatars exist, diverse immigrants are moving illegally into the most contaminated regions of the country.
5. BELGIUM
Satanists, Flemish Brabant and East Flanders, also the Francophone Liège, Namur and Luxembourg; Muslims in Brussels is a strategic city; Antwerp; North Africans (predominantly Moroccan and almost entirely Muslims); Turks and Kurds; The German-speaking cantons; The student population
6. BOSNIA
The Bosniak Muslims; The Serbs; The largely Muslim Gypsy, and wholly Muslim Turkish, minorities; Students.
7. BULGARIA
Young people; The Rumelian Turks; The Millet - an oppressed Turkish-speaking mix of Turk and Gypsy; The Roma (Gypsies) (60% are Orthodox and 40% Muslim, but most are still deeply involved in the occult, crime and gambling); The Pomaks, (Bulgarian-speaking Muslims); The Jews.
8. CHANNEL ISLAND
SEE UNITED KINGDOM
9. CROATIA
Orthodox Serbs; Muslim Bosnians; Catholic Croats;
10. CYPRUS
REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS. Muslims; non-religious; Military Garrisons
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS: Almost the entire population is Muslim, but also very secularized.
11. CZECH REPUBLIC
Orthodox and norminal Christian groups; Young people; non-religious (almost 50%).
12. DENMARK
Ninety percent of the population are members of the Lutheran Peoples Church . Church attendance varies between 1% and 4% in most parishes, yet many Danes still hold to their Christian identity (50% regularly pray).
Young people; The 'New Danes'; guest workers and refugees; Muslim groups (Turks, Arabs, Iranians, Albanians, Somalis, etc.)
13. ESTONIA
Estonia is in need of evangelism in much the same manner as the rest of Europe . Most people notionally recognize Christianity's principles, but have little desire to commit themselves to Christ. Non-religious, Muslims; nominal Christians
14. FAEROE ISLANDS
The Faeroes need revival. From the largely nominal state Lutheran Church to the charismatic house churches, local Christian leaders all agree that these islands need a fresh move of the Holy Spirit.
Baha'i, non-religious, nominal Christians
15. FINLAND
Young people; Muslims (many refugees and asylum-seekers from Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa ).
16. FRANCE
Full-time practitioners of these black arts (occult); many large cities; 35,000 communes; The Basques (southwest); The Loire Valley; Brittany; Picardy; Limousin; Champagne-Ardennes; Calais; The island of Corsica (birthplace of Napoleon); Portuguese, Spanish and Italian communities; Jewish community; North Africans; Berbers; Black Africans; Indo-Chinese refugees; Turkish, Iranian and Afghan communities; Muslims; Youth
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17. GERMANY
Young people; The 'Ossies' (former East Germans); Whole areas of Germany (the northern plains, Bavaria, the Eifel area on the Belgian border, etc); Many cities (extremely secular); Foreigners (immigrants, guest workers, international students and economic and political refugees); Muslims (ethnic German Muslims); Turks; Kurds; Iranians; North African Arabs and Berbers; Albanian and Bosnian Muslims from former Yugoslavia; Southern Europeans; Central Europeans; Roma (Gypsies) from Central Europe; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Slovakia, etc.; Jews
18. GIBRALTAR
Tourists, 7,000+ Moroccan workers; Jewish community and the South Asian-origin Hindus.
19. GREECE
The 150 islands: The majority of the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, the Ionian Islands and others; University students; Albanians; Immigrant communities in the Athens area; Indigenous ethnic minorities in the north; Vlach and Muslim Turks, Roma (Gypsies) and Bulgarian-speaking Pomaks; drug addicts
20. HOLY SEE ( VATICAN CITY STATE )
100% Catholic. The Pope is the head of the largest religious body on earth. He exercises an enormous influence within and beyond the Roman Catholic Church.
21. HUNGARY
The Jews; The Roma (Gypsy) community; refugees from former Yugoslavia ; Hungarians abroad.
22. ICELAND
The majority of Icelanders are only nominally Christian. Most Icelanders have had some involvement with New Age ideologies, the occult, and other such practices. Spiritual wastelands; University students.
23. IRELAND
Nominal Christians; Young people; The Irish-speaking minority (rural West); Muslims (Arabic origin); The 'Itinerants' (Gypsies); Migrant workers (Europe, the Middle East and Africa need specific ministry).
24. ISLE OF MAN
SEE UNITED KINGDOM
25. ITALY
The infamous Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra. 32,000 of Italy's communities; The northeastern Veneto Region (cities of Venice, Padova and Vicenza); Sardinia; The wealthy, materialistic northern cities (Milan, Turin, Bologna and Venice); The northern provinces (Umbria, Trentino, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna); students in 48 universities; heroin addicts; The minorities in the northeast: The Friulians, Ladins, Slovenes and South Tyrolean Germans; The Greek and Croatian minorities in the south; Albanians (Calabrian and Sicilian Albanians); Muslims (The Muslim mosque in Rome is Europe's largest); Africans (especially Eritrea); Italy's long coastline dwellers.
26. LATVIA
Nominal Christianity (Lutheran and Catholic)
27. LIECHTENSTEIN
Almost the entire indigenous population is Catholic. The majority of expatriates are nominal Christians and a growing minority are Muslims.
28. LITHUANIA
The non-religious; Ethnic minorities: The Russian and Polish communities, the shrinking Jewish community and the Muslim Tatar community
29. LUXEMBOURG
The land is Catholic by tradition and culture (Many Catholics dabble in Buddhism and the New Age); Foreigners in Luxembourg for employment, business or EU affairs.
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30. MACEDONIA
Macedonian Orthodox Church; The ethnic minorities: Albanians, The large Roma population, The Turkish community (Mainly in city of Debar and Muslim), The Torbish (Macedonian-speaking Muslims)
31. MALTA
Malta was the first nation in Europe to embrace Christianity - after the Apostle Paul's shipwreck on the island. Nominal Religious Malteses; Non-religious; North Africans from Libya and Tunisia (Muslims).
32. MOLDOVA
1,000 or more villages (Many deeply involved in occult); The Gypsy population; The Muslim minorities; The youth
33. MONACO
Nominal Christians (Catholic); non-religious; Muslims
34. NETHERLAND
Nearly half the population; The highly secularized cities: Amsterdam (virtually a byword for godlessness), Rotterdam , The Hague and Utrecht ; Migrant ethnic minorities: Ghanaians, Indonesians, Antilleans, Chinese and other groups; Muslims: The Turks and Kurds, Moroccans (Berber Rif and Shilha), Iranians and Afghans;The Chinese (Buddhist); The Hindus (mainly Suriname Asians and Sri Lankan Tamil).
35. NORWAY
Oslo and the surrounding; The Saami; Immigrant minorities: Muslims from North Africa , Turkey , Iran , Pakistan and Somalia ; Asians: Sri Lankan Tamils, Vietnamese and Chinese; Refugees from Bosnia , Yugoslavia and Albania.
36. POLAND
Foreign sects and religions: Jehovah's Witnesses; New Age and paganism. Young people and students; Thousands of towns and villages.
37. PORTUGAL
The seven northern and north-eastern provinces (strongly traditional Catholic); The four provinces in the south; The 69 counties; The 3,632 localities; Madeira Island; Azores; Ethnic minorities (African and Arab Muslims, Hindu Goanese, Macau Chinese); Young people (Drug abuser, students).
38. ROMANIA
Substance abusers, prostitutes; Nominal German and Hungarian Protestants; The youth; the Roma (Gypsy) community; The Muslims : Turks, Tatars and some Bulgarians living in the southeast province of Constanta ; south-east regions.
39. RUSSIA
Muslim, superficially 'Orthodox' pagans and Buddhist - were given the opportunity to hear the gospel for the first time, and in many the first churches were planted. Nominal Christians (Russian Orthodox church - ROC); traditionalists (clinging to a Slavonic Church liturgy); the indigenous Vissarion movement; occultism; parapsychology; Satanism.
Over 90% of Russians with no meaningful link with a church; The rich and influential; Muslims: Turkic Central Asians, Caucasus peoples, Kurds, etc.; Students and young people; Children; Alcoholics (No country has such a severe alcohol abuse problem as Russia); Drug abusers; AIDS victims; Prisoners; New religionists: Hare Krishna, indigenous messianic Vissarion movement (Siberia), The JWs, Parapsychologists, hypnotists, shamanists and Satanists
The Jews (Georgian, Tat and Hill Jews in the Caucasus ); The Roma (Gypsy); The Chinese.
GEO-ETHNIC ETITIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: THE ARCTIC PEOPLES OF EUROPE AND SABERIA. Komi and Komi-Permyak; Finno-Ugric Komi (pagans); The Nenets and the Finno-Ugric Khanti; Mansi; and Saami (largely shamanists); Sakha: indigenous Turkic Sakha (Yakut); Evenki; Chukotka: Eskimo-related Chukchi and Koryak of the northern Kamchatka Peninsula peoples.
THE NORTH CAUCASUS PEOPLES:
The North Caucasus people (largely Muslims); the Ossetians (largely nominal) Orthodox. The Cherkess (Circassian) people: Adygeya, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachayevo-Cherkess. The Turkic Balkar and Karachay (nominally Muslim and live among the Cherkess); Chechyna; Dagestan (94% Muslim): The largest indigenous groups being Avar, Darghin, Lezhgi, Lak, Tabassaran, Nogai. The Ossetians living in both Georgia and Severnaya-Ossetiya; Abkhazia.
THE ALTAI-MONGOLIAN PEOPLE: The Kalmyk (Buddhist people and much occult bondage); The Buryat people (Lamaistic Buddhism); The Tuvinians (Tuva -Uriankhai); The Khakass people (Khakasiya - Turkic shamanists).
THE URAL-VOLGA REPUBLIC: The Chuvash , Udmurt, Mari, Erzya and Mordvin (superficially Orthodox and basically animist); Tatar and Bashkort (Bashkir) - largely Muslim.
40. SAN MARINO
Nominal Catholic Sammarinese; JWs; Baha'i believers; Waldensian. There is freedom to worship, but not to evangelize: There is only one indigenous evangelical believer reported, but no evangelical church exists.
41. SLOVAKIA
Nominal Christians (Hungarians, Slovaks); The Roma (Gypsies).
42. SLOVENIA
Nominal Christian groups (Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran); atheists; Muslims
43. SPAIN
The Basques (Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya, Alava and Navarra); The Muslims; North and West Africans; Chinese; The Canary Islanders; the inhabitants of smaller islands: Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gomera, La Palma and Hierro; Ceuta and Melilla (mostly Muslim); Jehovah's Witnesses; Mormon; The occult (Mediums, witchcraft, astrology, parapsychology and Satanism); Drugs addicts; Gamblers; Cantabria; Lo Rioja; Navarra; Galicia; Extremadura; students.
44. SVABALD
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45. SWEDEN
Believers of feminism (with inclusive language in referring to God), homosexualism (making homosexual 'weddings' an equally viable option), relativism and universalism. Youth; The Saami peoples of Lapland; There are rural and urban areas; Albanian, Croatian, Bosnian and Serb refugees; Political and religious refugees (from the Communist Bloc, Middle East and Africa); Muslims: Yugoslavia , Turkey (Turks and Kurds), Iran and North Africa; The Chinese
46. SWITZERLAND
The great reformers, Calvin and Zwingli, expounded the truths of Scripture in this land, but few today have any interest or understanding of what real Christianity is. Wealth, comfort, indifference and a vague religiosity have become the norm.
Young people; Cantons: The German-speaking cantons of Luzern, Zug, Schwyz and Uri, the largely Francophone Valais and Fribourg and the Italian-speaking Ticino ; foreign communities: Italian, Spanish, Croat, Tamil, Hungarian, Yugoslav, Vietnamese, Turkish, etc.
47. UKRAINE
Students; Crimea : Crimean Tatars; Ukrainian Jews; The eastern region; Cults: in particular Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and eastern mystical groups
48. UNITED KINGDOM
Children; Youth; Students; Overseas students; Caribbean and African peoples; South Asians: Panjabi, Kashmiri, Bangladeshi and Pathan communities; Middle Eastern peoples: Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Iranians, Iranians, Yemenis and Moroccans; Muslims; Chinese; Jewish community;
ENGLAND: Nominalism and notional Christianity. UK Bangladeshis (the largest concentration in the world outside their homeland), Kurds and Turks.
England 's inner cities: Nominal Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikh, drugs addicts, drug baron criminal gangs
NORTHERN IRELAND: Muslims, non-religious.
SCOTLAND: Scotland has sent out great men and women to bless the world such as David Livingstone, Robert Moffatt, Mary Slessor and Eric Liddell. May this tradition continue!
Nominal Christians, liberal theologians and Freemasonry, non-church-goers.
WALES: Nominal Christians; non-religious.
49. YUGOSLAVIA: Central and south areas; Students; War refugees; Nominally Orthodox Montenegrins; Albanian Muslims.
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