People group profile · PG042216
The Zoró of Brazil
The Zoró of Brazil, numbering about 550 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Tupi-Mondé-speaking Indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso and Rondônia, maintaining a distinct cultural identity shaped by forest-based traditions, kinship, and local ecological knowledge.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Gavião Do Jiparaná.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 550
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Gavião Do Jiparaná (gvo)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Rondônia state, Terra Indigena Igarape Lourdes (Gavião dialect). Mato Grosso state, municipality of Rondolándia (Zoró dialect)
Where they live
Gospel status
The Zoró are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Zoró
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Gavião Do Jiparaná · Tupian family
100% speak Gavião Do Jiparaná
Gospel resources in Gavião Do Jiparaná
- Bible available, published 1991
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Gaviao Do Jiparana)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Zoró
- 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.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
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