Bora of Colombia (PGID: PG016219)

The Bora of Colombia

The Bora of Colombia, numbering approximately 1,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Bora-speaking people of the Caquetá and Putumayo river regions of the Colombian Amazon whose identity is closely linked to the broader Bora cultural tradition shared across the Colombia-Peru border and rooted in communal maloca life. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Spanish is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Colombia
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 1,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016219
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Spanish
Language Family: Indo-European

90%

Spanish Speakers

Media Resources in Spanish:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
The Savior	View Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Spanish:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
1569 Sagradas Escrituras			✓
1602 Reina-Valera Antigua			✓
Biblia de América	✓	✓	✓
Dios Habla Hoy		✓
La Biblia			✓
La Palabra de Dios para Todos		✓
La Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional®	✓
Lenguaje Actual		✓
Reina Valera 1995		✓
Reina Valera Contemporánea	✓
Reina Valera, Revisada y Corregida (1865)			✓
The Word of God for All - 2000 World Bible Translation Center		✓	✓
The Word of God for All 2014		✓	✓

13 entries

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Bora 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 Bora:

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 Bora of Colombia

The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.
Matthew 4:16

Pray that those living in darkness and the shadow of death will see a great light and turn to the Lord for salvation.

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Psalm 25:5

Pray that the gospel will advance and that God will lead people in His truth, bringing many to salvation.

Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
Psalm 6:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will remind them that He is near and will help them place their hope in Him when others wish to do them harm.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
Psalm 8:1

Pray that God will raise up people who love Him and are able and willing to go to and share the hope of the gospel with those who don't know it. Pray that everyone will see His name as majestic in all the earth!

Bora Across Countries (ROP3 - 101612) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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3 people groups

People Group ID	Name ▲	Country	Population	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG016219	Bora	Colombia	1,000	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Ethnoreligion
PG017505	Bora	Peru	750	No Longer Unreached	Spanish	Animism
PG017022	Miranha	Brazil	850	No Longer Unreached	Portuguese	Ethnoreligion

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