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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Enawenê-Nawê of Brazil

The Enawenê-Nawê of Brazil, numbering approximately 1,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a small Amazonian Indigenous people of Brazil whose life revolves around fishing, communal living, and long spiritual rituals. Their culture is unique for its strong focus on ritual exchange with nature’s spirits and its reliance almost entirely on fish. They are an Indigenous people, in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Animism. They primarily speak Enawené-Nawé.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Enawené-Nawé (unk)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 1,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): No Evangelicals, Churches or Resources
People Group ID: PG016828
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Enawené-Nawé
Language Family: Arawakan

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Enawené-Nawé Speakers

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Next steps for the Enawenê-Nawê

The Enawenê-Nawê 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 Enawenê-Nawê

The Enawenê-Nawê 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 Enawenê-Nawê

The Enawenê-Nawê 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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Pray specifically for the Enawenê-Nawê of Brazil

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
readActs 4:12

Pray that those walking in darkness among them will come to know the name by which they must be saved, and call upon Him in faith.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
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Pray that God will lead them to His Word, and where it is not available, ask that He will raise up those who will produce gospel media in their heart language.

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
readColossians 3:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

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.

Enawenê-Nawê (ROP3 - 114794) reported in the following countries:

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