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The Yagua of Peru

The Yagua of Peru, numbering approximately 5,700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Peba-Yaguan people of the Amazon, Napo, Putumayo, and Yavari river basins whose Jesuit mission settlements collapsed by 1768 amid disease and Portuguese slave raids, later suffering renewed devastation during the 1880-1914 Amazon rubber boom. They mostly adhere to Animism and Yagua is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Yagua (yad)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 5,700
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017602
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

85%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yagua
Language Family: Peba-Yagua

88%
%
Yagua Speakers

Media Resources in Yagua:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Yagua:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1994 The Bible League✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Yagua bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Yagua 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 Yagua:
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 Yagua of Peru

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
readProverbs 4:19

Pray that lost people will accept salvation through Christ, turn from destruction, and experience joy in the way of righteousness.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
read1 Timothy 2:5-6

Pray for the truth about Jesus Christ to spread among the lost so that many will accept His ransom for their sin and experience freedom in a relationship with Him.

Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
readMatthew 18:19

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they find other believers to pray with, and that they will trust God to answer their requests according to His will.

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
readEphesians 1:13-14

Pray that God will work through believers near and far in bringing the lost to Himself, giving them what they need to do the task He has set before them, and helping them rest in Him because He has given them His Spirit.

Yagua Across Countries (ROP3 - 110919) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
YaguaPG016293YaguaColombia1,100Unengaged and UnreachedYaguaEthnoreligion
YaguaPG017602YaguaPeru5,700No Longer UnreachedYaguaAnimism

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