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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Shipibo of Peru

The Shipibo of Peru, numbering approximately 22,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a people and Language of Peru. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Shipibo-Conibo is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Shipibo-Conibo (shp)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 22,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017591
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Pray for the Shipibo of Peru

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Shipibo-Conibo
Language Family: Pano-Tacanan

100%
%
Shipibo-Conibo Speakers

Media Resources in Shipibo-Conibo:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Shipibo-Conibo:

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1 entry

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Or check out the Shipibo-Conibo bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Shipibo 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 Shipibo:
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 Shipibo of Peru

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
readPsalm 10:17-18

Pray that God, in accordance with His good character, will give justice to those who are oppressed by sin and that they will know that His offer of salvation is for everyone.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that God will remove obstacles to the gospel so that many will see the hope He offers through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, and be transformed from being enemies to being His friends.

The LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
readNumbers 6:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be blessed with peace in their lives, knowing that God is with them.

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.

Shipibo Across Countries (ROP3 - 108952) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
ShipiboPG017591ShipiboPeru22,500No Longer UnreachedShipibo-ConiboEthnoreligion

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