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The Amahuaca of Brazil

The Amahuaca of Brazil, numbering approximately 275 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Panoan-speaking Amazonian people first contacted by Franciscan missionaries in 1686, whose traditional Urubamba Valley homeland was later devastated by exploitation under rubber barons before communities resettled along the Peru-Brazil border. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Amahuaca is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Amahuaca (amc)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 275
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016517
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Pray for the Amahuaca of Brazil

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Amahuaca
Language Family: Pano-Tacanan

75%
%
Amahuaca Speakers

Media Resources in Amahuaca:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Amahuaca:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Amahuaca 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 Amahuaca:
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 Amahuaca of Brazil

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
readLuke 12:7

Pray that those who don't yet know how to trust in Jesus will not be consumed by worry and anxiety, but will trust in the Father's care and provision for their daily needs and for their eternal salvation

And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
readZechariah 2:11

Pray that many will take refuge in the Lord and be His people who share the good news of salvation in Jesus with others.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
readTitus 3:4-5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and might struggle with temptation to trust in their own works, they will remember that it is only because of God's mercy that they have been saved.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readMatthew 9:37-38

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will raise up believers to send out into His harvest field, which is ripe and ready.

Amahuaca Across Countries (ROP3 - 100245) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
AmahuacaPG016517AmahuacaBrazil275No Longer UnreachedAmahuacaEthnoreligion
AmahuacaPG017493AmahuacaPeru300Unengaged and UnreachedAmahuacaAnimism

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