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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Brazilians of Switzerland

The Brazilians of Switzerland, numbering approximately 21,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Portuguese-speaking people of highly mixed historical orgins, united by a shared national culture and identity rather than a single ethnicity They are an Diaspora people, with Brazilian as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Portuguese, Brazilian people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Portuguese.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Switzerland
People Cluster: Portuguese, Brazilian
Primary Language(s): Portuguese (por)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 21,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG048542
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

65%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Portuguese
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Portuguese Speakers

Media Resources in Portuguese:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Portuguese:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2014 Bible League International✓
Almeida Corrigida Fiel (ACF)✓
Almeida Revista e Atualizada✓
Almeida Revista e Corrigida✓
João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada✓
Nova Traducao na Linguagem de Hoje✓✓
Tradução de João Ferreira de Almeida✓
Tradução Interconfessional - a BÍBLIA para todos✓✓

8 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Portuguese bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Brazilians 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 Brazilians:
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 Brazilians of Switzerland

And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
readExodus 14:22

Pray that the God who split the sea so that the Israelites might pass through would do another great work among these people, softening the hearts of those who remain lost to the good news and saving them from their sins.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that the gospel will advance among those who don’t know the good news of salvation in Jesus so that they might believe and trust in Jesus.

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
readHebrews 10:32-33

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember the day of their salvation and persevere in their faith despite hardships and suffering.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Brazilian Across Countries (ROP3 - 115779) reported in the following countries:

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14 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
BraziliansPG000009BraziliansAustria850No Longer UnreachedPortugueseRoman Catholicism
BraziliansPG000471BraziliansPortugal182,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseRoman Catholicism
BraziliansPG016329BraziliansFrench Guiana16,500No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG016369BraziliansGuyana10,500No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG016388BraziliansJamaica6,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG016600BraziliansBrazil206,280,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG042335BraziliansSpain33,500Engaged yet UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG046522BraziliansUnited States320,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseRoman Catholicism
BraziliansPG046804BraziliansParaguay462,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG047367BraziliansCanada28,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseRoman Catholicism
BraziliansPG047834BraziliansBelgium17,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG048432BraziliansUnited Kingdom276,000No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG048542BraziliansSwitzerland21,500No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism
BraziliansPG048554BraziliansItaly46,500No Longer UnreachedPortugueseFolk Catholicism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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