Leading The Way's dual-language broadcasts feature Michael Youssef's Gospel messages in English, which are translated phrase by phrase into one of 20 languages reaching some 115 countries. Many listeners tune in to learn English — and, as a result, hear the Gospel.

Leading The Way launched a Sorani broadcast on July 1, 2007 for Iraqi Kurdistan. Due to complications in the production of this program, the language was produced and broadcast for a limited time. An Urdu language broadcast for Pakistan has since been announced to take the place of Sorani as our 20th translated language program. Listen to these programs online E-mail Sorani representative Your gift helps us share the Gospel over 2,300 times each week

The English-Sorani broadcast was produced for a limited time in 2007. We are now in production on an English-Urdu broadcast for Pakistan to fulfill our reach in 20 translated languages.

At an estimated 16 to 20 million people, the Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without their own state, having endured centuries of displacement and persecution. The single largest population of Kurds inhabits an area known as Kurdistan, covering areas of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. However, this designation is merely cultural; the Kurds share no unifying language, religion, or government.

The Kurds, in general, have "very little hope." They have been persecuted and are quite poor as a people, lacking a unifying government to solidify their economic and political circumstances.

Sorani is one of the two languages under the larger Kurdish language umbrella and is spoken by a majority of Iraqi Kurds. Their population numbers somewhere between four to six million, with approximately two and a quarter million speaking Sorani. Iraqi Kurds are not the largest collection of ethnic Kurds. Since the Gulf War, U. N. Protection has afforded Iraq's Kurdish population a relatively stable situation and a small piece of land over which they have limited control.

Iraqi Kurds have a local government with limited authority over the "Kurdish Autonomous Region" (KAR), the most socially and economically liberal of Iraq. Kurds are creating a new constitution that will abolish Islamic law in favor of civil government. While the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, the region has some religious tolerance, allowing Shi'a, traditional cults, Christianity, and a trace of Judaism.

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