REPORT ON GLOBAL FIELD
LIST OF PEOPLE GROUPS LESS EVANGELISED IN THE PACIFIC.
1. AMERICAN SAMOA
The Mormon; nominal Christians
2. AUSTRALIA
Aboriginal tribes; Many people in working-class urban areas; Muslims (40% Arabic-speaking, 20% Turkish, 9% Bosnian, 7% Indonesian/Malay); Chinese; Vietnamese; The diverse peoples from the former Yugoslavia; Jews; Southern Europeans: Majorly Italians, Greeks, Polish, Maltese, Spanish; The indigenous Aborigines; Young people and children
3. CHRISTMAS ISLAND
SEE AUSTRALIA
4. COCOS (KEELIN) ISLAND
SEE AUSTRALIA
5. COOK ISLAND
Niueans; Tokelauans; Cook Islanders; Japanese (telephone pornography); internet gamblers; Russian money launderers;
6. FIJI
Cultural Christians (with Legalism, nominalism, failure to confront worship of ancestral spirit gods, Alcoholism and broken homes); The Indians of Fiji; The Hindus; Sikhs and Panjabis; Muslim community; The Chinese (mostly Cantonese); young people.
7. FRENCH POLYNESIA
Tahitians: debased by promiscuity (over 60% illegitimate births), prostitution, alcoholism, drug abuse and the breakdown of family life. Young people; pagans; syncretistic and foreign sects: two forms of Mormonism; The outer island groups: Marquesans, Mangarevans and Tuamotuans; Chinese; French community.
8. GUAM
Youth; Nominal Christians
9. JOHNSTON ISLAND
SEE GUAM
10. KIRIBATI
Nominal Christians; I-Kiribati; AIDS victims; drug addicts; Migrant communities.
11. MARSHALL ISLAND
SEE MICRONESIA
12. MICRONESIA
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: Micronesian: Chuuk (5 dialects); Pohnpeian(4); Kosraean; Yapese; Mortlockese; Carolinian; Ulithian; Woleaian.
Polynesian: Kapingamarangian; Nukuoro on two atolls south of Chuuk. Japanese; Chinese; Filipino. Nominal Christians; traditional ethnics; Baha'I; non-religious; buddhists.
MARSHALL ISLANDS (REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS ): Micronesian: Marshallese (two dialects). Pacific Islanders; US Citizens; Filipinos. Nominal Christians; traditional ethnics; Baha'I; non-religious.
NORTHERN MARIANAS (COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS): Pacific Islanders: Chamorro; Carolinian; Other Micronesian.
Asians (many illegal immigrants): Filipino; Chinese; Korean; Japanese. US mainlanders. Nominal Christians; traditional ethnics; Baha'I; non-religious; buddhists.
PALAU ( REPUBLIC OF PALAU ( BELAU )): Micronesian (Three languages): Palavan; Sonsorol. Filipino; Chinese; Japanese, US Mainlander, Korean.
Top of page Top of page
13. MIDWAY ISLAND:
SEE GUAM.
14. NAURU
Micronesian: Nauruan; I-Kiribati; Chinese; Caucasian; Tuvaluan. Nominal Christians; traditional ethnics; Baha'I; non-religious; buddhists.
15. NEW CALEDONIA
Melanesian: Indigenous (Kanak - 27 distinct languages); Mixed race. Polynesian: Wallisian; Tahitian; Futunan. Caucasian: Caledoche French (75% Caledoche, 25% Metropolitan French); Italian. Asian: Indonesian; Vietnamese.
The Muslims of Javanese and Arab descent; Polynesian Islanders (most are traditionally Catholic): Wallisians and Futunans; The Caledoche; The Metropolitan French.
16. NEW ZEALAND
Polynesian: Maori; Pacific Islanders (Samoan, Tongan, Cook Is, Niue , etc.). Asian. Young people; Maori (Ringatu and Ratana, Mormons); Chinese immigrants; Indians; Southeast Asian refugees; Japanese community (predominantly Buddhist); Jews; Muslim; South Africans and Koreans
17. NIUE
SEE COOK ISLAND
18. NORFOLK ISLAND
SEE AUSTRALIA
19. NORTHERN MARIANA ISLAND
SEE MICRONESIA
20. PALAU
SEE MICRONESIA
21. PAPUA NEW GUINEA
The inhabitants of Star Mountains on the West Papua border; dwellers of some Fly and Sepik River valleys and swamps; Cargo cult followers: parts of Manus Island, Bougainville and Madang Province; Squatter settlements; Prisoners; Chinese.
BOUGAINVILLET: Melanesian and Polynesian peoples.
22. PITICIAN ISLAND
SEE COOK ISLAND
23. SAMOA
Mormons; nominal Christians; non-religious.
24. SOLOMON ISLAND
Cargo cult followers; traditional ethnics; animists: Guadalcanal and Malaita; Youth.
25. TOKELAU ISLAND
SEE COOK ISLAND
26. TONGA
Mormons; Hindus; Buddhists; Chinese.
27. TUVALU
SEE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
28 VANUATU
Traditional ethnics; Cargo cult followers; Baha'is; non-religious; Buddhists; Mormons; Muslims.
29. WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLAND
Non-religious; Baha'is; Nominal Christians.
Top of page Top of page
|
