People group profile · PG016564
The Banawa of Brazil
The Banawa of Brazil, numbering about 90 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Arawan people who call themselves Kitiya, living along the Banawa River between the Jurua and Purus in Amazonas, whose ancestral land was invaded during the 19th-century rubber boom before Brazil recognized their territory in the 1990s.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Jamamadí.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 90
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Jamamadí (jaa)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC ?
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Amazonas: Jaruara; Lábrea municipality, 7 villages; Banawá river area; others scattered
Where they live
Gospel status
The Banawa are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Banawa
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
80% adherents
Primary language
Jamamadí · Arawan family
100% speak Jamamadí
Gospel resources in Jamamadí
- Bible available, published 2020
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Jaruara)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Banawa
- 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.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
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