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Jula
Quick facts about the Jula
- Location: Burkina Faso, Mali
- Also Known As: Kong Jula, Dioula, Dyula
- Status: Engaged by IMB
- Population: 1,200,000
- Primary Religion: Islam
- Number of Christians: less than 500
- Language: Jula
- Jula are credited with bringing Islam to this part of West Africa.
- They are primarily traders when living in cities and towns, and subsistance farmers out in the villages.
- In some areas, they live among evangelical Christians but they have not responded to the gospel.
- Only the New Testament and Genesis have been translated into Jula.
Please pray that the handful of Jula believers would grow strong in their new faith and go spread the Gospel as their ancestors spread Islam in this part of West Africa.
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The Jula people are staunchly Islamic. In fact, they say to be Jula is to be Muslim. Even though in some areas they live side by side with other people groups that have been evangelized, the Jula have been resistant to the gospel thus far. The majority of Jula people live in northern Cote d'Ivoire and have been cut off from the outside world due to current conflict between the north and the south. It is therefore very difficult to reach them at this time.
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