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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Shipibo of Peru

The Shipibo of Peru, numbering approximately 22,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a people and Language of Peru. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Shipibo-Conibo is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Shipibo-Conibo (shp)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 22,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017591
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Shipibo-Conibo
Language Family: Pano-Tacanan

100%
%
Shipibo-Conibo Speakers

Media Resources in Shipibo-Conibo:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Shipibo-Conibo:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

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Or check out the Shipibo-Conibo bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Shipibo 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 Shipibo:
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 Shipibo of Peru

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
readPsalm 46:10

Pray that those who do not yet worship Jesus will be still and know that He is God, that He will be exalted among them and in all the earth.

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
read1 John 4:21

Pray that the good news of God's love will reach everyone in this people group, and that His love will compel them to love others as Christ has loved us.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
readIsaiah 26:3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, the Lord will keep them in perfect peace as they trust in Him.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Shipibo Across Countries (ROP3 - 108952) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
ShipiboPG017591ShipiboPeru22,500No Longer UnreachedShipibo-ConiboEthnoreligion

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