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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Enawenê-Nawê of Brazil

The Enawenê-Nawê of Brazil, numbering approximately 550 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Brazil and can also be known as Eneuene-Mare, Enauenê nauê, Salumã. They are an Indigenous people, in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion - Animism. They primarily speak Enawené-Nawé.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Enawené-Nawé (unk)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion - Animism
Population: 550
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG016828

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion - Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion - Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Enawené-Nawé
Language Family: Maipurean

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Enawené-Nawé Speakers

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Next steps for the Enawenê-Nawê

The Enawenê-Nawê are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Enawenê-Nawê

The Enawenê-Nawê are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Enawenê-Nawê

The Enawenê-Nawê 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.

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Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
readJames 2:5

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Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
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Pray that entire households will come to faith in Jesus and that God will bless their families with faith in Him for generations to come.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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Enawenê-Nawê reported in the following countries (ROP3):

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