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The Dhuwaya of Australia

The Dhuwaya of Australia, numbering approximately 1,900 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Yolŋu Aboriginal people of northeastern Arnhem Land whose traditional homelands are centered on the Yirrkala region and who form part of the broader Yolŋu cultural and linguistic community. They mostly adhere to Animism and Dhuwaya is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Pacific Islander Peoples
Country: Australia
People Cluster: Aboriginal Australians
Primary Language(s): Dhuwaya (dwy)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 1,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007868
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

45%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Dhuwaya
Language Family: Austronesian

30%
%
Dhuwaya Speakers

Media Resources in Dhuwaya:

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Bible Resources in Dhuwaya:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Dhuwaya 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 Dhuwaya:
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 Dhuwaya of Australia

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
read1 Timothy 6:9

Pray for those, rich and poor, who have put their trust in worldly things, and ask that they will be honest with themselves, acknowledge their need for God and turn to Him.

Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
readPsalm 2:10-11

Pray for the rulers and authorities here to seek the Lord and serve Him only. Pray that the people they lead will be amazed by the work of God in their lives.

Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
readActs 2:47

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will use their faith and their church community as a testimony to the watching world and grow His Church.

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, "Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."
readRomans 15:20-21

Pray that God will send believers to cross cultures and proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that the nations might glorify God for His mercy.

Dhuwaya Across Countries (ROP3 - 102591) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
DhuwayaPG007868DhuwayaAustralia1,900No Longer UnreachedDhuwayaAnimism

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