The Manjuy Chorote of Paraguay

The Manjuy Chorote of Paraguay, numbering approximately 1,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Mataguayan-speaking people of the Gran Chaco who were displaced from the Bermejo River banks to the Pilcomayo River during the colonial era, traditionally sustained by fishing, gathering, and seasonal migration. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Iyo'wujwa Chorote is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Paraguay
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Iyo'wujwa Chorote (crq)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 1,400
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017253
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Iyo'wujwa Chorote
Language Family: Mataguayan

100%
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Chorote, Iyo’wujwa Speakers

Media Resources in Iyo'wujwa Chorote:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Iyo'wujwa Chorote:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2015 Misión Nuevas Tribus de Paraguay✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Iyo'wujwa Chorote bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Manjuy Chorote 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 Manjuy Chorote:
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 Manjuy Chorote of Paraguay

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

Pray that those who haven't heard yet will hear and believe that the wages of their sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them
readMatthew 4:24

Pray that the truth about the Lord will spread throughout the land so that many will have an opportunity to receive the good news and put their faith in Him.

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
readHebrews 10:38

Pray that as people trust in Christ, they will live by faith and not shrink back from their hope in Christ.

There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
readMark 7:15

Pray for Christians to take any opportunity to share the hope of Jesus with lost people here, praying they will be wise like Jesus as they share the truth about what can defile people and what can make them clean.

Chorote, Manjuy Across Countries (ROP3 - 102191) reported in the following countries:

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