People group profile · PG016530
The Apinaje of Brazil
The Apinaje of Brazil, numbering about 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 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 Apinayé.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 2,400
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Apinayé (apn)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Tocantins and Maranhão states, near Tocantinopolis; 6 villages
Where they live
Gospel status
The Apinaje 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 Apinaje
- 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
Apinayé · Nuclear-Macro-Je family
100% speak Apinayé
Gospel resources in Apinayé
- Bible available, published 2010
- 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 Apinaje
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
Know something we don't? Submit updates to IMB Global Research.