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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico, numbering approximately 296,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Nahua people of southeastern Puebla and neighboring Veracruz whose identity derives from the Aztec Nahua heritage and is expressed through the Tehuacan-Zongolica variety of the Nahuatl language. They mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Mexico
People Cluster: Aztec
Primary Language(s): Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl (npl)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 296,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG039193
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Pray for the Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

89%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl
Language Family: Uto-Aztecan

79%
%
Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla Speakers

Media Resources in Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl:

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1 entry

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl 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 Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl:
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 Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico

And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
readLuke 1:46-47

Pray that those who are lost will recognize their need for a Savior and joyfully embrace the mercy that God offers.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
readHebrews 10:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will live with reverence for God and not deliberately keep sinning after they receive the knowledge of the truth.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readMatthew 9:37-38

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will raise up believers to send out into His harvest field, which is ripe and ready.

Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla Across Countries (ROP3 - 107021) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Southeastern Puebla NahuatlPG039193Southeastern Puebla NahuatlMexico296,000No Longer UnreachedSoutheastern Puebla NahuatlFolk Catholicism
Southeastern Puebla NahuatlPG049282Southeastern Puebla NahuatlUnited States29,500No Longer UnreachedSoutheastern Puebla NahuatlRoman Catholicism

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