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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

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:27

Pray that those who don't yet know Christ will search diligently for God and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!
readDeuteronomy 32:3

Pray that believers will proclaim the Lord’s name and declare the greatness of our God so that others might believe in Him.

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
readIsaiah 25:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the hope of the Lord's coming, when He will swallow up death forever and wipe away their tears.

And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
readMatthew 7:28-29

Pray that God will remind believers that they have His authority as they share His truth with the lost, and pray He will draw crowds of people to this message and plant it deeply in their hearts.

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

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1 people group

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

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