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The Sarangani Manobo of Philippines

The Sarangani Manobo of Philippines, numbering approximately 75,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are one of eight Manobo subgroups of Mindanao in the Philippines, descended from early Malay migrants and traditionally called river people, led by a datu in swidden-farming villages sited near forests and rivers. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Sarangani Manobo is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Sarangani Manobo

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Philippines
People Cluster: Filipino Tribal
Primary Language(s): Sarangani Manobo (mbs)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 75,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007767
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

60%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Sarangani Manobo
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Manobo, Sarangani Speakers

Media Resources in Sarangani Manobo:

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Bible Resources in Sarangani Manobo:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Sarangani Manobo 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 Sarangani Manobo:
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 Sarangani Manobo of Philippines

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
readIsaiah 53:6

Pray that those who have wandered far from God will be drawn back to Him, recognizing their need for a Savior and finding forgiveness and new life in Christ.

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.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
readJohn 3:16

Pray that God will send and sustain believers to cross cultures and share the gospel with the lost. Ask that He will give them His heart for the lost and that many will believe in Him and not perish but have eternal life.

Manobo, Sarangani Across Countries (ROP3 - 108716) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▲CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Sarangani ManoboPG007767Sarangani ManoboPhilippines75,000No Longer UnreachedSarangani ManoboEthnoreligion

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