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Subanen North NT | Subanen, Northern

Subanen

The Subanen North speakers are the northernmost Subanen-speaking group in the Philippines. They provide for their families by subsistence farming and by fishing. People have little or no money beyond the basic survival needs of their families. In Subanen culture, parents still arrange marriages, and the family pays a bride price. Traditionally, the Northern Subanen practice a form of animism.

Protestant missionaries brought Christianity and established churches in the area about 1950. Today several Protestant denominations and the Catholic Church have active congregations in the region. But without God’s Word to give them a clear understanding of the Christian faith, many people turn back to the shaman priests of animism for help when trouble or illness comes.

A Filipino couple is serving as cross-cultural missionaries to the Subanen. Their church provides for their personal needs, but they need additional financial support to enable them to hire a mother-tongue speaker to insure a high quality of translation.

News from the Field
  • May07

    Subanen North of the Philippines

    A flurry of activity is going on as the team prepares the Northern Subanen New Testament for printing. Just a little over ten years ago, Filipino translators answered the call to begin translating. Now today the 20,000 Northern Subanen people are getting ready to celebrate God’s Word in a language they understand best.

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  • Oct30

    Subanen of Philippines

    Northern Subanen speakers are scattered in villages among the hills and along rivers. These people have little or no money beyond the basic survival needs of their families. Traditionally, the Northern Subanen practice a form of animism. Protestant missionaries brought Christianity and established churches in the area about 1950. Today several Protestant denominations and the Catholic Church have active congregations in the region.

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