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The Eastern Bru of Laos

The Eastern Bru of Laos, numbering approximately 37,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an upland swidden-farming people of eastern Laos's Savannakhet and Khammouane provinces near the Vietnam border, speaking a conservative non-tonal Austroasiatic language related to the Bru of Vietnam and Thailand. They mostly adhere to Animism and Eastern Bru is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: Laos
People Cluster: Mon-Khmer
Primary Language(s): Eastern Bru (bru)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 37,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG020895
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

99%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Eastern Bru
Language Family: Austroasiatic

100%
%
Bru, Eastern Speakers

Media Resources in Eastern Bru:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Eastern Bru:

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1 entry

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Or check out the Eastern Bru bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Eastern Bru 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 Eastern Bru:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Eastern Bru of Laos

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
readMatthew 5:44-45

Pray for those who don't know Jesus to encounter believers who are kind and compassionate and that their imitation of Christ will serve as a testimony that attracts lost people to Jesus.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
readActs 13:48-49

Pray that the gospel will spread throughout this whole region and that many will believe and embrace the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
readPsalm 100:3-4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be in awe of the Lord God, their Creator, and will give Him thanksgiving and praise.

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.

Eastern Bru Across Countries (ROP3 - 102833) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
Eastern BruPG011126Eastern BruVietnam74,500No Longer UnreachedEastern BruAnimism
Eastern BruPG020895Eastern BruLaos37,500Engaged yet UnreachedEastern BruAnimism

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