The Katukina-Juruá of Brazil

The Katukina-Juruá of Brazil, numbering approximately 400 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Indigenous Pano people of the Juruá region of Acre whose communities are organized through six named clans and who identify with the wider Katukina Noke Kuin tradition while maintaining distinct local identities. They mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and Panoan Katukína 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): Panoan Katukína (knt)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 400
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG016962
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

35%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Panoan Katukína
Language Family: Pano-Tacanan

100%
%
Katukína, Panoan Speakers

Media Resources in Panoan Katukína:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Panoan Katukína:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Katukina-Juruá 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.

Next steps for the Katukina-Juruá:
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Pray specifically for the Katukina-Juruá of Brazil

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.

Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!
readPsalm 150:2

Pray for the gospel to advance among those who are living in darkness. Pray that they will come to know Jesus and praise Him for all that He has done.

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 the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
readRomans 6:23

Pray that God will bring people to faith who are excited about the eternal life they have in Christ and will want to cross cultures to share this hope with others.

Katukina-Jurua Across Countries (ROP3 - 107855) reported in the following countries:

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