People group profile · PG016830
The Fulnio of Brazil
The Fulnio of Brazil, numbering about 5,200 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a people whose name means people of the riverbank, formerly known as Carijo, documented since 1749 in Pernambuco's Aguas Belas, the only Indigenous group of Northeast Brazil to retain their native Yaathe language.
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 Fulniô.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 5,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Fulniô (fun)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Alagoas state; Pernambuco: Sertão, Águas Belas municipality, 2 villages
Where they live
Gospel status
The Fulnio are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Fulnio
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
50% adherents
Primary language
50% speak Fulniô
Gospel resources in Fulniô
- Bible available, published 1968
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Fulnio
- 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.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
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