Iraqi Arabs: Unreached People Group Report

INTRODUCTION

Iraqi Arabs are the unreached people group I selected. I could not find a group that I felt comfortable with researching about. Nor one that I felt a desire to write about. I finally decided on a region; the Middle East because I have much compassion for those people. My previous current event papers were regarding this region and surrounding regions. These areas are facing difficulties regarding wars and rebels against the local governments. I choose the Islamic religion to narrow my search. I have a heart for the people involved with that religion because they are lost yet they already know Jesus Christ’s name. Hopefully with some correcting maybe they can find their way onto the right path. That reduced and help determined my

Residing predominantly in the nation of Iraq; 14,274,000. That is ninety percent of this people group in one nation. I imagine that if we could get the message of Jesus Christ to a small amount of the Iraqi Arabs in there it would extend over the whole nation like the sunlight breaking across the sky at sunrise. As it says in Acts 2:37 their hearts will be pierced upon hearing the news of Jesus Christ. The age structure of the people in Iraq varies in odd amounts. For the ages between zero and fourteen contains forty percent of the population. I am unsure why but for the ages between fifteen and twenty-four contain about twenty percent. For the ages between twenty-five and fifty-four it goes back up to thirty-three percent. And for the combined percent of the ages between fifty-five and over is only seven percent. I find this weird because the average life expectancy of both male and female throughout the nation is just under seventy five-years of age. If this is such why isn’t the percent larger for this older age group? The death rate in Iraq is nearly four deaths per one-thousand people. The average birth rate is thirty-one births per one-thousand people. This statistic explain the large percentage in the ages under fourteen and

They insist on spending time together; sitting on their floors drinking coffee. Because Islam is their major religion the Iraqi Arabs insist to preserve the people by marrying only hose inside their group. Men inherit generally everything. To my surprise “children are considered a family's greatest asset, females are valued mostly for their ability to bear children.” Women wear Women wear burka’s everywhere they are; home and in town. For generation parents have arranged marriages for their children. Although today it is coming to be usual for young people to choose their own husband or wife. Girls are thought to be ready for marriage by age nine. The risk of infectious disease is considered to be intermediate. There are three major food and water diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever. I imagine in comparison to our country this is a great concern to us Americans. I researched the United States risk of infectious disease and in the same website it showed there is none. Not only was there none but there was no information concerning this topic.

GOSPEL Opportunities

I feel that the global church could serve these people who are in Iraq in many ways. We could be there to comfort them for there is much war, civil dispute, and rebellion amongst their own country and surrounding countries. Another way these people across the world could be served would be just serving them of any means. Becoming