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The Sanuma of Brazil

The Sanuma of Brazil, numbering approximately 700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Yanomaman-speaking cultural subgroup of the Yanomami shaped by contact with the neighboring Ye'kuana, living semi-nomadically off hunting, fishing, and horticulture with land held and decisions made by village consensus. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Sanumá 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): Sanumá (xsu)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 700
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017094
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Pray for the Sanuma 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: Sanumá
Language Family: Yanomamic

100%
%
Sanumá Speakers

Media Resources in Sanumá:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Sanumá:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Missão Evangélica da Amazônia✓✓

1 entry

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Or check out the Sanumá bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Sanuma 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 Sanuma:
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 Sanuma of Brazil

"...And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
readLuke 8:8

Pray that the seeds of truth will take root in the hearts of those who are far from Jesus and that He will lead them from darkness to light.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
readJohn 6:35

Pray that the lost will come to Jesus and believe in Him, never to hunger or thirst again.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
readJames 1:2-3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will consider it pure joy when they face trials of many kinds, trusting in God's promise that the testing of their faith produces perseverance.

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
readRomans 12:4-5

Ask God to send believers to people in other cultures and to help them use their gifts in harmony with others so that the body of Christ may be built up.

Sanuma Across Countries (ROP3 - 108685) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
SanumaPG017094SanumaBrazil700No Longer UnreachedSanumáEthnoreligion
SanumaPG016493SanumaVenezuela1,200No Longer UnreachedSanumáAnimism

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