TARIF: The Most Unreached Place in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Today is Friday, October 6th, A.D. 2023. This is The Africa Review in Five, written by Paul Schlehlein and presented by Yamikani Katunga.

TARIF: The Most Unreached Place in Sub-Saharan Africa

According to Joshua Project, the people group in sub-Saharan Africa that is least reached with the gospel is the Yao people in the eastern region of Malawi. 

Joshuaproject.net is a research initiative seeking to identify the ethnic groups of the world with the fewest followers of Jesus. This Christian organization uses ethnologic data to help coordinate the work of missionaries by tracking the people groups with the least followers of evangelical Christianity.  

Joshua Project breaks down the world’s population of eight billion people into over 17,00 people groups. Each of these people groups are then placed into one of five Progress Levels based on their number of evangelicals, defined as someone who believes the Bible and trusts in Jesus Christ as their sole source for salvation. 

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