People group profile · PG024727
The Ixil of Guatemala
The Ixil of Guatemala, numbering about 145,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Maya people of the Cuchumatanes highlands' Ixil Triangle municipalities, subjected during the 1980s civil war to a campaign a UN-backed commission and Guatemalan courts later ruled to be genocide, which razed most Ixil villages.
They are an indigenous people in the Central American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Ixil.
Fast facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Population
- 145,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Ixil (ixl)
- 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
- Central America, Americas
- Location
- Quiché department: Chajul, Cotzal, and Nebaj municipalities
Where they live
Gospel status
The Ixil 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 Ixil
- 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
Ixil · Mayan family
86% speak Ixil
Gospel resources in Ixil
- Bible available, published 2016
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Ixil, Nebaj)
Bibles
- 2001 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · audio, text
- 2008 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · audio, text
- 2016 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · audio, text
- Asociación Educativa y Cultural Maya · audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Ixil
- 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.
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