The Kraho of Brazil

The Kraho of Brazil, numbering approximately 2,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Timbira Ge people pushed west from Maranhao's Balsas River by settlers and cattle ranchers into their present Tocantins territory, living in circular villages and known for ritual log races run with buriti-wood trunks. They mostly adhere to Animism and Krahô is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Kraho

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Krahô (xra)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 2,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG016978
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

60%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Krahô
Language Family: South-Eastern Tasmanian

100%
%
Krahô Speakers

Media Resources in Krahô:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Krahô:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Or check out the Krahô bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Kraho 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 Kraho:
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Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
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Pray specifically for the Kraho of Brazil

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick in it and say to them, "the kingdom of God has come near to you."
readLuke 10:8-9

Pray that the lost will receive messengers of the gospel with joy, turn from their sins, and be healed.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember God's mercy and grace and experience joy as they walk in new life with Christ.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Kraho Across Countries (ROP3 - 105298) reported in the following countries:

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