People group profile · PG016527
The Apalai of Brazil
The Apalai of Brazil, numbering about 450 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Cariban people of Brazil's East Paru River within Tumucumaque Indigenous Park, whose oral tradition recalls long wars against the Wayana and Wayapi and the incorporation of defeated hunter-gatherer survivors, later fusing culturally with the Wayana.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Apalaí.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 450
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Apalaí (apy)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 40% or Greater but Less than 50%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Significantly Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Pará: Paru Leste river; some on Jarí and Citare rivers, 20 villages; a few in Amapá state
Where they live
Gospel status
The Apalai are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Apalai
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Apalaí · Cariban family
100% speak Apalaí
Gospel resources in Apalaí
- Bible available, published 2017
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Apalai
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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