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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ashéninka Apurucayali of Peru

The Ashéninka Apurucayali of Peru, numbering approximately 4,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an indigenous community of Peru and can also be known as Campa, Apurucayali Asheninca Campa. They are an Indigenous people, in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Ajyíninka Apurucayali.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Ajyíninka Apurucayali (cpc)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 4,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Active CP Activity
People Group ID: PG033526

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ajyíninka Apurucayali
Language Family: Arawakan

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Ajyíninka Apurucayali Speakers

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Next steps for the Ashéninka Apurucayali

The Ashéninka Apurucayali are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Ashéninka Apurucayali

The Ashéninka Apurucayali 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.

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Next steps for the Ashéninka Apurucayali

The Ashéninka Apurucayali 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.

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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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
readRomans 6:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will lead those who might hesitate in getting baptized to trust Him as they obey His command, even when obedience is hard.

At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ...that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.
readColossians 4:3-4

Ask God to open doors for believers to share the gospel and help them communicate it clearly so that more people will understand the mystery of Christ and turn to follow Him.

Asheninca Apurucayali reported in the following countries (ROP3):

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