People group profile · PG017479
The Siona of Ecuador
The Siona of Ecuador, numbering about 375 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Amazonian people of Ecuador's Cuyabeno reserve who merged with the closely related Secoya into a single Siona-Secoya identity by the 1970s before choosing to maintain separate identities, their population later split by the 1941 Peru-Ecuador border war.
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 Siona.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 375
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Siona (snn)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Siona 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 Siona
- 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
Siona · Tucanoan family
40% speak Siona
Gospel resources in Siona
- Bible available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2009 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Siona
- 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.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
Siona in other countries
The same people (ROP3 109319) is reported in 1 other country.
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