The Filipinos of Guam

The Filipinos of Guam, numbering approximately 23,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Austronesian ethnic community of Tagalog-speaking people who are citizens of, or immigrants from, the Philippines. They mostly adhere to Roman Catholicism and Tagalog is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Filipino

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Guam
People Cluster: Filipino, Central
Primary Language(s): Tagalog (tgl)
Primary Religion(s): Roman Catholicism
Population: 23,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG050222
View on Joshua Project

Pray for the Filipinos of Guam

Join others around the world in praying for the lost to be saved, the gospel to advance, the global Church to grow, and for laborers to be sent out and sustained in the harvest.

Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Roman Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

70%
%
Roman Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tagalog
Language Family: Austronesian

90%
%
Tagalog Speakers

Media Resources in Tagalog:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

3 films

Bible Resources in Tagalog:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1905 Ang Dating Biblia✓
2012 Magandang Balita Biblia✓✓✓

2 entries

Or check out the Tagalog bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

SPI: No longer Unreached

The Filipinos 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 Filipinos:
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 Filipinos of Guam

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
readPsalm 16:11

Pray that God will make a way for His path of life to be revealed to many so that they may come into His presence and experience abundant joy and eternal pleasures at His right hand.

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
readColossians 4:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be wise in the way they walk with the lost and manage their time and other resources in a way that honors God.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
readRomans 6:23

Pray that God will bring people to faith who are excited about the eternal life they have in Christ and will want to cross cultures to share this hope with others.

Filipino, Tagalog Across Countries (ROP3 - 109692) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
All

20 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
FilipinosFilipinosOman97,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosMacao33,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosHong Kong198,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosPalau2,900No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosAmerican Samoa1,300No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosNorthern Mariana Islands16,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosGuam23,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosItaly77,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosNew Zealand17,000No Longer UnreachedEnglishRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosUnited Kingdom96,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosKuwait212,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosCanada438,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosUnited States2,525,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosGermany67,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosSpain38,500Engaged yet UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosSingapore175,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosMalaysia878,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
TagalogTagalogPhilippines36,960,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogRoman Catholicism
FilipinosFilipinosQatar255,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogProtestantism
FilipinosFilipinosAustralia160,000No Longer UnreachedTagalogProtestantism

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

Peoplegroups.org relies on updates from the field and other organizations for much of our data, so if you have any updates, please contact us. We use various international naming standards. For a list of these standards and fields, visit our Data Standards section.

Scroll to Top