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The Apinaje of Brazil

The Apinaje of Brazil, numbering approximately 2,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are the only Western Timbira people, a Ge nation living west of Brazil's Tocantins River, who resisted Portuguese expeditions in 1740 and 1774 after decades of Jesuit contact, their lands later divided by the Belem-Brasilia and Trans-Amazonian highways. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Apinayé is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Apinayé (apn)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 2,400
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016530
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Pray for the Apinaje of Brazil

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Apinayé
Language Family: Nuclear-Macro-Je

100%
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Apinagé Speakers

Media Resources in Apinayé:

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Bible Resources in Apinayé:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Apinaje 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 Apinaje:
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 Apinaje of Brazil

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
readRevelation 3:20

Pray that those who have not opened their hearts to Jesus will hear His knock and invite Him in as their Savior and Lord.

For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
readMalachi 1:11

Pray that they will worship God in spirit and truth, offering Him the sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving that He desires.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
readEphesians 6:12

Ask God to give those He sends to cross cultures the discernment they need to recognize the spiritual battle they are fighting. Pray God will protect their faith as they abide in Him.

Apinaye Across Countries (ROP3 - 100417) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population ▼ Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Apinaje PG016530 Apinaje Brazil 2,400 No Longer Unreached Apinayé Ethnoreligion

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