People group profile · PG016962
The Katukina-Juruá of Brazil
The Katukina-Juruá of Brazil, numbering about 400 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Indigenous Pano people of the Juruá region of Acre whose communities are organized through six named clans and who identify with the wider Katukina Noke Kuin tradition while maintaining distinct local identities.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism, and they primarily speak Panoan Katukína.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 400
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Panoan Katukína (knt)
- Primary religion
- Folk Catholicism
- 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
- Amazonas: Acre
Where they live
Gospel status
The Katukina-Juruá 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Katukina-Juruá
- 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
Folk Catholicism · Christianity
35% adherents
Primary language
Panoan Katukína · Pano-Tacanan family
100% speak Panoan Katukína
Gospel resources in Panoan Katukína
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Katukina-Juruá
- 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.
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