Yabarana in Venezuela

Yabarana
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People Name: Yabarana
Country: Venezuela
10/40 Window: No
Population: 400
World Population: 400
Primary Language: Yabarana
Primary Religion: Ethnic Religions
Christian Adherents: 25.00 %
Evangelicals: 2.00 %
Scripture: Unspecified
Ministry Resources: No
Jesus Film: No
Audio Recordings: No
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Affinity Bloc: Latin-Caribbean Americans
Progress Level:

Introduction / History

The Yabarana are a small group near the Paracito River in Venezuela. In the eighteenth century, their population dwindled due to poor conditions as rubber tappers.

What Are Their Lives Like?

The Yabarana are a highly endangered people group. Because of this, little is known regarding their current culture.

What Are Their Beliefs?

The Warao have priests, temples, and idols and worship a supreme creator god. Like that of other indigenous people in the region, their social culture is kinship-based and includes puberty rites, death rituals, and shamanistic cures.

What Are Their Needs?

Health needs and economic stress affect the lives and livelihoods of the Warao people of Venezuela. Additionally, land devastation and threats to natural resources prompt displacement from their homeland.

They need to see Jesus Christ as the answer t

Prayer Points

Ask the Lord to send workers to the Yabarna, showing them the way to love and obey the Lord.
Pray they would be given a spiritual hunger and discernment, as well as protection from spiritual counterfeits and false doctrines.
Pray for the Lord to thrust out many to disciple them in Christ's ways and for them to disciple others.

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