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The Casiguran Dumagat of Philippines

The Casiguran Dumagat of Philippines, numbering approximately 950 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Negrito people of Luzon's San Ildefonso Peninsula in the Philippines, among the islands' earliest inhabitants, whose ancestral forest land shrank from near-total control before World War Two to a small landless remnant today. They mostly adhere to Animism and Casiguran Dumagat Agta is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2025). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Casiguran Dumagat

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Philippines
People Cluster: Filipino Tribal
Primary Language(s): Casiguran Dumagat Agta (dgc)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 950
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007650
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

85%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Casiguran Dumagat Agta
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Agta, Casiguran Dumagat Speakers

Media Resources in Casiguran Dumagat Agta:

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Bible Resources in Casiguran Dumagat Agta:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Casiguran Dumagat 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 Casiguran Dumagat:
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 Casiguran Dumagat of Philippines

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
readRomans 1:22

Ask God to pour out His mercy and bring those who are walking in their own wisdom to faith in Jesus.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
readJohn 10:28

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have assurance of eternal life, knowing that no one can snatch them out of the loving hand of Jesus.

You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
read2 Corinthians 1:11

Pray that many people will join in praying for the spread of the gospel here, and that God will answer these prayers by drawing more people to Himself.

Dumagat, Casiguran Across Countries (ROP3 - 101894) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Casiguran DumagatPG007650Casiguran DumagatPhilippines950No Longer UnreachedCasiguran Dumagat AgtaAnimism

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