People group profile · PG016797
The Canela of Brazil
The Canela of Brazil, numbering about 2,600 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Eastern Timbira people of Brazil's Maranhao state comprising three related groups who live in circular villages facing a central plaza, pacified in 1814 and granted formal land rights by FUNAI between 1971 and 1978.
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 Canela.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 2,600
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Canela (ram)
- 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
- Maranhão state
Where they live
Gospel status
The Canela 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Canela
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Canela · Nuclear-Macro-Je family
100% speak Canela
Gospel resources in Canela
- Bible available, published 1990
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Canela)
Bibles
- 1990 Liga Biblica do Brasil · audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Canela
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- 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.
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