The Lower Tanudan Kalinga of Philippines

The Lower Tanudan Kalinga of Philippines, numbering approximately 18,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Cordillera mountain people of the Philippines' Tanudan area, formed from migrants converging from the Cagayan Valley and Abra province, maintaining the local Podon variant of the Kalinga bodong peace-pact tradition They are an Indigenous people, with Kalinga as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Filipino Tribal people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism. They primarily speak Tanudan Kalinga.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Philippines
People Cluster: Filipino Tribal
Primary Language(s): Tanudan Kalinga (kml)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 18,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007717
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

94%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tanudan Kalinga
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Kalinga, Tanudan Speakers

Media Resources in Tanudan Kalinga:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Tanudan Kalinga:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Lower Tanudan Kalinga are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Lower Tanudan Kalinga:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Lower Tanudan Kalinga of Philippines

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
readJohn 8:32

Pray for those who live enslaved to sin to hear and receive the truth of the gospel and be set free.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
readPsalm 104:8

Pray that they will see the hand of God in the beauty and order of the natural world, and that they will worship Him as the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
readDeuteronomy 6:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, and might, as they strive to live lives that honor and glorify Him.

"For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you."
readActs 17:23

Pray that believers God sends to cross cultures will be sensitive to the spiritual needs of the people they serve, and will proclaim the truth of Christ to them in creative ways that they will understand.

Kalinga, Lower Tanudan Across Countries (ROP3 - 105884) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

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