People group profile · PG017515
The Junikuin of Peru
The Junikuin of Peru, numbering about 1,700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are the Peru-Brazil border Amazon people who call themselves Huni Kuin, meaning true people, more widely known by the exonym Cashinahua, settled along the Purus and Curanja rivers and practicing Panoan shamanic ayahuasca ritual traditions.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Cashinahua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Peru
- Population
- 1,700
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Cashinahua (cbs)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC ?
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Ucayali region: Curanja and Purus rivers
Where they live
Gospel status
The Junikuin are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Junikuin
- 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
90% adherents
Primary language
Cashinahua · Pano-Tacanan family
100% speak Cashinahua
Gospel resources in Cashinahua
- Bible available, published 2008
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Juni Kuin)
Bibles
- La Sociedad Bíblica Peruana · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Junikuin
- 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.
- 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.
Junikuin in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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